Maxwell Becton


Maxwell W. Becton co-founded Becton Dickinson in 1897 with Fairleigh S. Dickinson.

Biography

Born in Kinston, North Carolina, Becton moved to Rutherford, New Jersey, where his company was based, and died there in his home in 1951.
Becton is interred at Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.