Margaret
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 05:14 PM

Hi Dalene,

The brothers who founded Johnson & Johnson were from Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania, but according to The Gentleman Rebel, the biography of General Robert Wood Johnson written by Lawrence Foster, the family did trace its roots back to a John Johnson who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. The family moved to Rhode Island and then Connecticut before going to Pennsylvania. Best of luck in researching your family history!

Margaret

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