Record #:

3379

Author(s):

Arthur, Billy

Abstract:

A chance meeting in Texas in 1897 between two traveling salesmen from the state, Fairleigh Dickinson and Maxwell Becton, led to the founding of Becton Dickinson & Company, one of the nation's largest medical-supply firms.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 57 Issue 9, Feb 1990, p32-33, por

Subject(s):

Becton, Maxwell Wilbur, 1868-1951; Medical supply industry--History; Dickinson, Fairleigh Stanton, 1866-1948