Forty years ago a Carteret county youth felt the urge to go out in the world and seek his fortune. He worked his way on a lumber vessel from Beaufort to Elizabethport, New Jersey, and soon found employment ther. He is now a prominent business man of Rutherford, N.J., and is highly regarded there as a clipping form a newspaper of that city shows. The newspaper extract reads as follows:
“By direction of President Calvin Coolidge, Secretary of War John W. Weeks has appointed Farleigh S. Dickinson of Rutherford as officer of the United States Army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Order of Reserve Corps.
At the close of the World war Becton, Dickinson & company, of which Mr. Dickinson is the president, received citations for distinguished service in having aided materially in obtaining victory for the armies of the United States.
This commission has been given in recognition of this service and in harmony with the Department program of industrial preparedness for national defense.
In addition to Mr. Dickinson’s activities in manufacturing and banking, he has for many years served as counsellor of the National Retail Instrument Association and is now and has been for the past six years president of the American Surgical Instrument Surgical Instrument Manufacturers’ Association, is vice-president and a director of the Rutherford National Bank, director of the Bergen County Bank of Rutherford, former president of the Rutherford Rotary Club, a member of the Sinking Fund Commission of the Union Club, president of the Yountakah Country Club, as well as being interested in all movement for the improvement of Rutherford and vicinity.
From the front page of The Beaufort News, Thursday, July 30, 1925. The headline spelled Mr. Dickinson’s first name “Fareleigh” and the article spelled it “Farleigh”, but I believe both are wrong. I believe this must be Fairleigh Dickinson, and that Fairleigh Dickinson University is named after him.
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068210/1925-07-30/ed-1/seq-1/ According to Wikipedia:
“Fairleigh Dickinson University was founded as the Fairleigh Dickinson Junior College in 1942 as a junior college by Peter Sammartino and wife Sally, and was named after early benefactor Colonel Fairleigh S. Dickinson, co-founder of Becton Dickinson.[6] Its original campus was located in Rutherford, New Jersey. By 1948, Fairleigh Dickinson Junior College expanded its curriculum to offer a four-year program when the GI Bill and veterans' money encouraged it to redesignate itself as Fairleigh Dickinson College. In that same year, the school received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.”
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