Founder Profile
John Ripley Myers
Last reviewed: November 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is John Ripley Myers?
John Ripley Myers is a founder of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, which was founded in 1887 with Edward Robinson Squibb and William McLaren Bristol.
- Company founded
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Founded
- 1887
- Co-founders
- Edward Robinson Squibb and William McLaren Bristol
Background
John Ripley Myers was a Hamilton College graduate and the co-investor alongside William McLaren Bristol in the 1887 purchase that started Bristol-Myers.
Founding Story
Myers and Bristol bought the Clinton Pharmaceutical Company in Clinton, New York, in 1887 and renamed it Bristol, Myers and Company in 1898. Myers died in 1899, before the company's first national brands took off, but his name stayed on the business through the 1989 merger that created Bristol-Myers Squibb.
John Ripley Myers was born in 1864.
Myers was born on October 8, 1864 and died on December 22, 1899.