In 1890, Willis Sharpe Kilmer arrived in Binghamton, New York where he took over the advertising department of the family patent medicine business. Young Willis devised a new and extremely effective print campaign that turned one of the companies many products, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root Kidney Liver and Bladder Cure, into a household name.
‘Uniquely New York’
Links:
Path Through History
WSKG’s Path Through History
Broome County Historical Society
Photos Courtesy of:
Broome County Historical Society