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Colonel Fairleigh S. Dickinson (August 22, 1866–June 23, 1948) was the co-founder of Becton Dickinson and the named benefactor of Fairleigh Dickinson University.1
Born in Beaufort, North Carolina, Dickinson died in his home in Rutherford, New Jersey, where he had moved several years after what is now BD was founded in New York City in 1897.2 Dickinson was interred in Hillside Cemetery, in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.1
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- ^ a b "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place", New York Times (March 28, 2004). Retrieved on 21 August 2007. "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."
- ^ "Col. Dickinson, 84, College Founder: Head of Surgical Instrument Firm in Rutherford Dies, Set Up School in 1942, copy of article from The New York Times, June 24, 1948, p. 25. Accessed September 12, 2007.
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