newsletter
Catalog Number
2023.16.7Title
Parke-Davis Chem-MunicatorDate of Origin
1968Artist/Author
noneMaterials
paperDimensions
8.5 in.Description
Newsletter, Parke-Davis Chem-Municator, 4-18-1975. Photos on the back show the retirement party of Peter Meurer.History
Peter Meurer was born on 3-2-1910 in the Netherlands. He lived in Holland, MI with his wife Augusta at 604 Pinecrest Dr. Peter passed away in Holland, MI on 6-20-2000.Parke-Davis got their start in Detroit in the mid-1800s. In 1952 they opened a plant in Holland Charter Township at 182 Howard Avenue. Their business in Holland was the manufacture of antibiotics. Their most popular product for a time was the drug chloromycetin.
It was in 1975 that the Holland facility was expanded, adding chemical manufacturing and research buildings. Within two years the company had become a part of Warner-Lambert. Some of the products from the Warner-Lambert years include the anticonvulsant drugs Dilantin and Neurontin, the cholesterol-lowering Lopid, the anti-histamine Benadryl, and the Alzheimer drug Cognex.
In 2000 Warner-Lambert was purchased by Pfizer. Within a few years Pfizer began downsizing, closing the laboratory in 2004. In 2007 production ended in the adjacent manufacturing plant.
The donor, Bob Dykstra, worked for Parke-Davis.