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Edward Squibb, American Pharmaceutical Founder

Edward Robinson Squibb (July 4, 1819 - October 25, 1900) was an American inventor and manufacturer of pharmaceutics who founded E. R. Squibb and Sons (Bristol-Myers Squibb). At age 26 he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania. He became a ship's surgeon in the U.S. Navy, serving during the Mexican-American War. Disenchanted with the poor quality of medicines used on American military vessels he invented an improved method of distilling ether, an anesthetic. He gave away his distillation method, rather than patent it for profit. In 1858 he left the military and started his own pharmaceutics manufacturing business. His laboratory burned down three times, and in one of these instances an ether explosion left Squibb badly burned. In 1892 he created a partnership with his sons, Edward and Charles, the firm being known for generations afterwards as E. R. Squibb and Sons. He died in 1900, at the age of 79, from a ruptured blood vessel. No photographer credited, undated.
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Edward Squibb, American Pharmaceutical Founder
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Edward Robinson Squibb (July 4, 1819 - October 25, 1900) was an American inventor and manufacturer of pharmaceutics who founded E. R. Squibb and Sons (Bristol-Myers Squibb). At age 26 he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania. He became a ship's surgeon in the U.S. Navy, serving during the Mexican-American War. Disenchanted with the poor quality of medicines used on American military vessels he invented an improved method of distilling ether, an anesthetic. He gave away his distillation method, rather than patent it for profit. In 1858 he left the military and started his own pharmaceutics manufacturing business. His laboratory burned down three times, and in one of these instances an ether explosion left Squibb badly burned. In 1892 he created a partnership with his sons, Edward and Charles, the firm being known for generations afterwards as E. R. Squibb and Sons. He died in 1900, at the age of 79, from a ruptured blood vessel. No photographer credited, undated.
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