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Libbey-Owens merged with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in 1930 to form Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company. [1] In April 1986, LOF sold its glass business and name to the Pilkington Group, a multinational glass manufacturer headquartered in the United Kingdom. The remaining three business units of the company, Aeroquip, Vickers, and Sterling ...
A post office called Ohio was established in 1882, and remained in operation until 1920. [2] The community was named by settlers from Ohio who settled in the area during the early 1900s. Ohio was shown on maps until 1948. Since 1990 a few scattered houses remain in the area. [3]
Center Point was an unincorporated community in Tarrant County, located near its border with Parker County, in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] The area is now mainly within the areas of Azle and Briar .
A few miles upriver was the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, which was an early glass producing center in what was at that time, the American "west". Glass was first made in Wheeling in the 1820s, and one of the larger glass works in the United States, J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company, was still operating there in the 1880s. [14]
In the 1870s, Ohio had a glass industry located principally in the eastern portion of the state, especially in coal-rich Belmont County.The Belmont County community of Bellaire, located on the Ohio side of the Ohio River across from Wheeling, West Virginia, was known as "Glass City" from 1870 to 1885. [11]
On September 1, 1857, the first native of Center Point, Daniel C. Nowlin, was born to James Crispin Nowlin and Ann Gathings Nowlin. Daniel served as Kerr County Surveyor, sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico , and then to Wyoming where he was a prominent sheep rancher until his death on February 5, 1925.
A hand-worked glass operation was also added at Tiffin, Ohio. The plants all received a letter designation. The plants all received a letter designation. The main office started at South 9th and Bingham Streets, Pittsburgh, PA , in the former Ripley Glass facility, and moved to Tiffin in 1938. [ 1 ]
The Sneath Glass Company / s n iː θ / was an American manufacturer of glass and glassware. After a brief 1890s startup in Tiffin, Ohio, the company moved to Hartford City, Indiana, to take advantage of the Indiana Gas Boom. [1] The small city was enjoying the benefits of the boom, and could provide natural gas as an energy source for ...