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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
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In New York in 1888, Becton worked as a salesman. In 1891, he moved to
Montana where he worked in real estate. He moved to Boston in 1895 and co-founded Randall and Becton, a medical thermometer company. While in Texas on a sales trip, he met
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who was a paper salesman. The two men discovered that they grew up fifty miles apart in North
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