Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

160 • Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

JOHN MCKESSON, FOUNDER, NEILE.HARMON

AND ALAN SEELENFREUND, CEOS,

MCKESSON AND COMPANY

In Chapter 5, we covered the history of McKesson with John McKesson and

Charles Olcott starting the company in 1833. In 1853, two years before the

death of Charles Olcott, Daniel Robbins became John McKesson’s part-

ner and the company was renamed McKesson & Robbins. John McKesson

passed away in 1893, 50 years aer his founding of McKesson. Not much

is known about John McKesson’s life, but he did start a wholesale drug and

import company that lasted 50 years and spanned the Civil War and the

nancial capitalist era. Litt ...