Frederick Barnett Kilmer

Frederick Barnett Kilmer (15 December 1851 – 28 December 1934) was an American pharmacist, author, public health activist and the director of Scientific Laboratories for the Johnson & Johnson company from 1889 to 1934.

Kilmer was born 15 December 1851 to Charles Kilmer and Mary Anne (née Langdon) in Chaplinville, Connecticut.

Kilmer married Annis Eliza 'Annie' Kilburn on 25 December 1874 at Sunbury, Pennsylvania, with whom he had four children, namely Anda Frederick (b.1873 d.1899), Ellen Annie (b.1875 d.1876), Charles Willoughby (b.1880 d.1880) and writer and poet Alfred Joyce (b.1886 d.1918).

Kilmer attended the public schools of Birmingham, New Jersey, before entering the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Pennsylvania, and subsequently the New York College of Pharmacy. He completed special courses in chemistry at Columbia, Yale and Rutgers Universities, and another under Hoffman. A Master in Pharmacy was conferred on him by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1920.

Kilmer cultivated and studied plants for medicinal properties, especially ginger, kola, papaw and belladonna, and implemented solutions to problems in water and milk supplies.

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Kilmer supported the Republican Party, and belonged to two clubs, the Chemists of New York City and the Union of New Brunswick. He was also a vestryman for the Christ Episcopal Church and member of the standing committee of the Diocese of New Jersey. He had previously studied at the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Pennsylvania.

Kilmer practiced his pharmacology in Birmingham, New York, Plymouth, Pennsylvania and Morristown, New Jersey; before moving to New Brunswick, New Jersey where he managed his own pharmacy.

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