by tim
Until last week, the name Casey Johnson meant nothing to me. But last week Casey Johnson died, at age 30, and in doing that, she caught my r.
Casey was a diabetic, and while that may have contributed to her break of dawn ruin, it appears that the main precipitate was living the leading lifetime. Casey never had to line, and for that I have compassion her.
Casey’s daddy is Robert Wood Johnson IV. He owns the New York Jets, but he lately extinct a daughter, so he has my commiseration; the privation of a neonate is a macabre constituent.
In any things turned out, the rumour piqued my interest, so I followed the simoleons to the embed of the Johnson holdings, Casey’s skilful-exceptional-grandfather, who was one of the three brothers who founded Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) .
Robert Wood Johnson the first was born in 1845, in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. In 1861, when he was 16, he was apprenticed to his uncle James, who ran an apothecary in Poughkeepsie, New York. Not by congruence, this kept the boy out of the Internal War.
In 1864, he moved to New York Big apple to vocation in the unshakable of Roushton & Aspinwall. And a few years after that, as the Englishman Joseph Lister was making pioneering steps in the football of antiseptic surgery (Listerine was named for him), Robert Johnson teamed up with George J. Seabury to coin aseptic surgery mat. In 1874, they introduced a medicated adhesive cover (the precursor of the Stripe-Aid), recommended for weak-minded backs, kidney troubles, heavy throats, coughs, rheumatism, stiffness, sprains and pains of all kinds. By 1878, the establish was bringing in the synonymous of $2.5 million per year in today’s dollars.
Splitting the profits two ways was easy, but when Robert Johnson’s younger chum James Wood Johnson joined in, distributing the profits became more complex; Seabury valued James less than Robert did. So in 1880, Robert sold his shares of the firm to Seabury, agreeing to defer out of the medical calling for 10 years.
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