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Myers' stepmother, Mary Ware Hewitt Myers (1848–1942), created the John Ripley Myers Lecture Fund at Hamilton College. The Myers lectures are designed to create discussions on topics that are outside the scope of the standard university curriculum.
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Although Myers did not live to see Bristol, Myers and Company become successful, his heirs inherited his shares, and his name remained associated with it. In 1900 the company was renamed Bristol-Myers. Its breakthrough was a product called
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to coincide with the Myers family sale, turning Bristol-Myers into an international corporation owned by stockholders and adding to the wealth of the Myers heirs.
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Bristol-Myers enjoyed sustained international success and eventually merged with a main competitor, Squibb Pharmaceuticals, to produce the company now known as
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Bristol, Myers and Company was not instantly profitable, and was still struggling when Myers died of pneumonia in
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Biographical Record of the Graduates and Former Students of the Yale University School of Forestry
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In 1929, the heirs of John Ripley Myers put their shares up for sale, and Bristol-Myers timed an
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mineral salt which proved popular because it reproduced the taste and effects of the natural
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They Went to War: A Biographical Register of the Green Mountain State in the Civil War
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Rutland Historical Society Quarterly, Volume XIX Number 4, 1989, page 47
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With Pen or Sword: Lives and Times of the Remarkable Rutland Ripleys
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With Pen or Sword: Lives and Times of the Remarkable Rutland Ripleys
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Made in the Twentieth Century: A Guide to Contemporary Collectibles
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Mega Mergers and Acquisitions: Case Studies from Key Industries
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Rosenbloom, Marketing Channels, Bristol-Myers Squibb, page 609
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Sold on Radio: Advertisers in the Golden Age of Broadcasting
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ingredient that was marketed as an effective treatment for
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John Ripley Myers graduated from The Morgan School in
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Helen Ripley (1836–1865) was the half-sister of poet
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John Ripley Myers, a founder of Bristol-Myers Squibb.
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William McLaren Bristol
Bristol-Myers
Cleveland, Ohio
Vermont Marble Company
Julia Caroline Dorr
American Civil War
William Y. W. Ripley
Edward H. Ripley
Clinton, Connecticut
Hamilton College
Sigma Phi
Clinton, New York
Brooklyn, New York
New York Herald
New York Tribune
New York City

Sal Hepatica
laxative
mineral springs
spas
Bohemia
Ipana
toothpaste
disinfectant
bleeding gums
initial public offering
Bristol-Myers Squibb
The Hamilton Review

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