Hemingray/Owens-Illinois Glass Company listing

[Trade Journal]

Publication: Glass Factory Year Book and Directory

Pittsburgh, PA, United States
p. 81,86,89-90,103,117, col. 1


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BOTTLE AND CONTAINER

MANUFACTURERS

 

Following are companies manufacturing hollow ware of all kinds from small perfume bottles to large demijohns and carboys. After the name of each company will be found the officers and operating heads, together with factory capacities and kind of ware made. The important classes of ware also will be found arranged by companies in the classification section.


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Hemingray Glass Co., Muncie, Ind.

(Now unit of Owens-Illinois Glass Co.)

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Owens-Illinois Glass Co., General Offices, Ohio Building, Toledo, Ohio. Plants at Alton, Streator, Chicago Heights and Carlyle, Ill.; Gas City, Terre Haute, Muncie and Evansville, Ind.; Columbus and Newark, O.; Bridgeton and Glassboro, N. J.; Okmulgee, Okla.; Clarion and Brackenridge, Pa.; Charleston, Fairmont, Huntington and Clarksburg, W. Va.

Wm. E. Levis, president and general manager; Harold Boeschenstein, vice president and assistant general manager; H. G. Phillipps, vice president and treasurer; F. J. Solon, vice president; and general sales manager; R. H. Barnard, vice president; A. W. Sherwood, vice president; B. F. Hazelton, Jr., vice president; C. B. Belknap, vice president; J. H. McNerney, secretary and assistant treasurer; E. F. Martin, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer; F. G. Moorfoot [sic] Morfoot, assistant treasurer and assistant secretary; A. J. Riedmayer, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer. Bottles and containers of all descriptions in flint, amber, light green, emerald green, French green, dark green and applied colors; bottles and containers for beverages, whiskey, wines, cordials, liquors, proprietaries, patent medicines, extracts, pharmaceuticals, toilet preparations, perfumes, cosmetics, prescriptions, drug store products, apothecary globes, nursers, oil dispensers, soap globes, catsup, vinegar, table sauces, mayonnaise, salad dressing, olives, coffee, meats, pickles, milk, cream, cottage cheese, including wide mouth and narrow mouth food containers, drug store containers, five gallon water bottles, carboys, fuel oil containers, jugs of various sizes and types and hand blown containers; glass wool insulating products; "Dustop" air filters; "Insulux" glass block; "Hemingray" insulators for electrical purposes.

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TABLEWARE

AND GENERAL FLINT

GLASSWARE COMPANIES


Pressed and Blown Ware Plants in the United

States and Canada.

 

On the following pages will be found the companies manufacturing lime, flint and special glass, both pressed and blown, for all purposes. After the name of the company and the names of its officers will be found the factory capacity and the kinds of ware made.

A brief classification of principal products giving merely the name and location of companies also is included. Also appended is a list of glass decorators, including independent shops as well as manufacturers operating decorating departments.


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Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo, O.

Wm. E. Levis, president; Harold Boeschenstein, vice president; F. J. Solon, general sales manager. Automatic pressed specialties, perfume bottles, hand blown containers, glass wool products and bottles of all kinds.

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Keywords:Hemingray : Owens-Illinois Glass Company
Researcher notes: 
Supplemental information: 
Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:January 24, 2010 by: Bob Stahr;