CHAPTER 131
125 Years Ago: Johnson & Johnson Opens its Doors

The First Johnson & Johnson building in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1886
It’s the winter of 1886, and Company founders James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson have solved the issue of where to put their new company, thanks to James’s very lucky train journey. New Brunswick, New Jersey turned out to be a great location: it had the railroad, the Delaware & Raritan Canal and the Raritan River to transport raw materials to the new company, and to ship products out. And it had a lot of other industries -- a cigar box manufacturer, and a fruit jar manufacturer, for example -- that would
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