CHAPTER 138
How a Conversation Led to First Aid Kits

Sometimes a chance conversation can lead to unexpected things. In Johnson & Johnson history, conversations have led to some very well-known products from our Family of Companies. A conversation in the late 1800s between one of our founders and someone he met on vacation led to something that’s a part of modern life: The First Aid Kit. Here’s how it happened.
Vintage 1930s First Aid Kit, from our archives
One day in the late 1880s, Company founder Robert Wood Johnson was on a Denver & Rio Grande train heading west through the Rocky Mountains, on his way to a much anticipated vacatio
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