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John Ripley Myers (October 8, 1864–December 22, 1899) was a co-founder (along with William McLaren Bristol) of the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers. ==Life== John Ripley Myers was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 8, 1864.〔Hamilton College, (The Hamilton Review ), March 1900, page 155〕〔Rutland Historical Society Quarterly, Volume XIX Number 4, 1989, page 47〕 His father was John J. Myers (1831-1883), the first President of the Vermont Marble Company, and his mother was Helen Ripley.〔Yale University, (Biographical Record of the Graduates and Former Students of the Yale University School of Forestry ), 1913, page 44〕〔Robert G. Steele, (With Pen or Sword: Lives and Times of the Remarkable Rutland Ripleys ), 1979, page 41〕 The extended Ripley family were active in several Rutland-area businesses and banks, and were wealthy as a result.〔Erik S. Hinckley and Tom Ledoux, (They Went to War: A Biographical Register of the Green Mountain State in the Civil War ), 2010, pages 15-16〕 Helen Ripley (1836-1865) was the half-sister of poet Julia Caroline Dorr and sister of American Civil War officers William Y. W. Ripley and Edward H. Ripley.〔Rutland Historical Quarterly, (The Last of the Rutland Ripleys ), Volume XIX, Number 4, 1989, page 47〕〔Robert G. Steele, (With Pen or Sword: Lives and Times of the Remarkable Rutland Ripleys ), 1979, page 41〕 John Ripley Myers graduated from The Morgan School in Clinton, Connecticut, and then attended Hamilton College. He graduated in 1887, and was a member of Sigma Phi.〔The Hamilton Review, page 155〕〔Sigma Phi Society, (Catalogue of the Sigma Phi ), 1891, page 504〕 Myers pursued several business ventures, and then partnered with William McLaren Bristol to purchase the Clinton Pharmaceutical Company in Clinton, New York. Myers and Bristol decided to rename the company Bristol, Myers and Company in 1898.〔Bert Rosenbloom, marketing Channels, (Bristol-Myers Squibb ), 2011, page 609〕 Myers lived in Brooklyn, New York while working to make Bristol, Myers profitable. While living in Brooklyn, he was also noted for his philanthropic activities, including contributions to charities sponsored by the New York Herald and New York Tribune, as well as donations to Hamilton College.〔The Hamilton Review, page 155〕〔Hamilton College, (Catalogue ), 1902, page 52〕 Bristol, Myers and Company wasn't instantly profitable, and was still struggling when Myers died of pneumonia in New York City on December 22, 1899.〔The Pharmaceutical Era magazine, (Death notice, John Ripley Myers ), December 28, 1899, page 880〕 He was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Rutland.〔, retrieved February 4, 2014〕 Myers never married, and had no children.〔The Pharmaceutical Era, page 880〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Ripley Myers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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