Edward Mead Johnson, Born April 23, 1852, Died March 20, 1934, was an american businessman. One of the co-founders of Johnson & Johnson with his two brothers, James Wood Johnson and Robert Wood Johnson in 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Edward earned a law degree and practiced law for a brief time before going into business with his brothers. His first son, Ted, was born in 1888 with a heart defect and feeding problems. In 1895, Johnson developed a side business, The American Ferment Company, to create a digestive aid. In 1897, E. Mead Johnson left the existing family business to go into business on his own in Jersey City, New Jersey, and in 1905, his side business was re-established as Mead Johnson & Company. The firm's first major infant formula was developed in 1910, and Dextri-Maltose, a carbohydrate-based milk modifier was introduced in 1911.
In 1915, he moved his company to Evansville, in an effort to be closer to the raw materials and ingredients that were needed for his products. Mead Johnson & Company became a leader in nutrition products for children and infants and the maker of the infant powered milk formula, Enfamil.
He was an active member of community organizations in Evansville and contributed the money needed to acquire a building used by an organization that fed sick babies, insisting that the donation remained anonymous until his death. The Evansville Business Journal inducted Johnson into its Business Hall of Fame in 2007.
To get credit for this virtual, 1.Take a picture of yourself with the Domed monument in the background and post it with your log, and 2. Send me, by message or email, the name on the Mausoleum across the lake to the southeast at the Reference Coordinates. You can see it from the island and it will be obvious of who it is.
This is in a cemetery, so as always, NO NIGHT CACHING.
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