factory in Elizabeth, N.J., absorbed himself in mechanical engineering and attended high school at night.īy his late 20s, Dickinson had become a top salesman for Baker Paper Company of Saugerties, N.Y., Kushnier says. There, Dickinson took a day job at the massive Singer Sewing Machine Co.
Finding employ as a mate on a merchant ship, Dickinson sailed up and down the East Coast, where he eyed the New York metro area, says Richard Kushnier, once BD’s informal company historian. He left at about 14, roughly five years after his father’s death, to set off on his own, says Ann Dickinson. “I see him as a competitive guy who had something to prove,” she says.ĭickinson was born in 1866 in Core Creek, N.C. He didn’t just own French bulldogs, he showed them. He didn’t just collect fine grand touring cars, he raced them. From family lore, she describes a disciplined and demanding man who turned hobbies into outlets for his driven personality.
187 on the Fortune 500.Īnn Dickinson was a year old when Dickinson, her grandfather, died. Armed Forces, the key benefactor for New Jersey’s largest private university, and the co-founder of BD, a medical supply company that ranks No. Dickinson has a name known throughout Bergen County and beyond.Įven today, his résumé holds up: colonel in the U.S.
Dickinson (Photo courtesy of Richard Kushnier)Ī North Carolina sailor turned North Jersey industrialist, Fairleigh S.
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