D. C. Jenkins Glass Company, Kokomo, Ind.

OBITUARY.

UNABLE to withstand the shock resulting from a fall which fractured his hip, David Jenkins, a well-known pioneer glass manufacturer, died at his home in Los Angeles on Friday, October 1, after an illness of two weeks, at the age of eighty-three.

His active connection with the trade covered a period of more than seventy years. He was born in Wales and came to this country with his parents when he was six years old, and at the age of eleven began his apprenticeship in a glass factory, having inherited a natural taste for the business, the Jenkins family having been engaged in glass manufacturing in Wales for many years before. He was in business in and around Pittsburgh until 1888, when he and his son, D. C. Jenkins, went to Findlay, Ohio, and erected a glass plant. Selling out there in 1894, they went to the Indiana gas field seeking a location, finally establishing a factory at Greentown. They operated there until 1898, when they sold the plant to the National Glass Co. Two years later they organized a company at Kokomo, Ind. The plant was destroyed by fire a few years later, and then the present D. C. Jenkins Glass Co. was organized.

Mr. Jenkins knew the art of glassmaking thoroughly. He spent fifty years as a superintendent of factories, and it was in that capacity that he was employed up to the time of his departure for California in the spring of 1914. He never could be persuaded to give up active work in the factory until after the death of his brother, Thomas Jenkins. The two were inseparable, having worked together at their craft from their early childhood.

Mr. Jenkins' life had been one of great activity, and during his many years in the business he had made a host of friends. His mental vigor had suffered a little from the lapse of time, and, being a great reader and a keen observer, he was always an interesting companion. Besides his son, D. C. Jenkins, head of the glass company bearing his name, he leaves another son and four daughters.

The funeral was held on Wednesday, October 6, at Pittsburgh, internment being in the Southside Cemetery.