"One of the world's largest drug manufacturing organizations saw its beginnings in this old farmhouse, built in the 1700's. Here one product, diphtheria antitoxin, got its start in 1906. Today, Lederle supplies many hundreds of different biological and pharmaceutical products for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human and animal diseases" March 15, 2013 LEDERLE LABORATORIES NY ,FOUNDED BY MR. EARNST LEDERLE -FORMER NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COMMISSIONER ( 1906)