CHAPTER 15
The Johnson Brothers
Behind the Johnson & Johnson name, there were three brothers: Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson. So why isn’t the company called “Johnson & Johnson & Johnson?” The reason is simple: even though Robert Wood Johnson had the idea for the company and led it until his death in 1910, the business is actually named after his two brothers.
Robert Wood Johnson
Robert Wood Johnson was born in 1845 in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania and in 1861 – with two brothers already in the army during the first year of the Civil War -- he became an apprentice at age 1
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