CHAPTER 217
130 Years Ago: James Wood Johnson Arrives in New Brunswick!
![James Wood Johnson and one of the original set of Johnson & Johnson buildings, from our archives. James Wood Johnson and one of the original set of Johnson & Johnson buildings, from our archives.](/sites/default/files/inline-images/2016/01/James-Wood-Johnson-and-1887-JJ-Buildings2-520x276.jpg)
James Wood Johnson and one of the original set of Johnson & Johnson buildings, from our archives.
It’s a cold January day in 1886, exactly 130 years ago. James Wood Johnson, one of the founders of Johnson & Johnson, is on a train heading from New York to Philadelphia. Early in 1885, Johnson and his brothers Robert and Edward had left their former company Seabury & Johnson with the intention of starting a new business, and James was looking for a location. He was on a westbound Pennsylvania Railroad train from New York to Philadelphia. When the train stopped at a tiny station halfway through the journey, Johnson & Johnson found its hometown: the city of New Brunswick, New Jers
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