Fairleigh S. Dickinson

This article is about the Becton Dickinson co-founder. For his son the New Jersey State Senator, see Fairleigh Dickinson, Jr.

Colonel Fairleigh Stanton Dickinson Sr. (August 22, 1866 – June 23, 1948) was an American businessman who was the co-founder of the Fortune 500 medical technology company Becton Dickinson and the named benefactor of Fairleigh Dickinson University.[1]

  1. ^ "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". The New York Times. March 28, 2004. Consider the eclectic group at rest in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst: the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams and both founders of the former industrial giant Becton-Dickinson, Maxwell Becton and Fairleigh Dickinson, for whom the New Jersey university is named.