Glass Plant Purchases

Fort Wayne Glass Works² Jun 17, 1898

q Upland, IN plant - soon sold to J. S. Giles

Windfall Glass Company² 12 Jan 1901

q Windfall, IN plant – being disposed in 1903

Loogootee Glass Company¹ Nov 10, 1904 $42,500

q Loogootee, IN plant – shut down 1906, sold July 1907. Also known as Allen Bros. Fruit Jar Co.

Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Company¹ Nov 19, 1904 $300,000

q Marion plant – operated until 1910

q Fairmount plant – operated until 1910

q Converse plant – operated until 1910

q Coffeyville plant - operated until 1913, equipment and some buildings moved to Wichita Falls.

Port Glass Works¹ Nov. 19, 1904 $75,000

q Belleville, IL plant - operated until about 1910

Swayzee Glass Company¹ Apr 21, 1906 $81,428

q Swayzee, IN plant - operated about one year

Upland Glass Company¹ Nov 12, 1909 $9,647

q Upland, IN plant - shut down immediately

Greenfield Fruit Jar & Bottle Company¹ Nov 20, 1909 $750,000

q Plant sold in 1917

Root Glass Company¹ Nov 24, 1909 $100,000

q Terre Haute, IN plant shut down almost immediately. Purchase was fruit jar operations only.

Mason Fruit Jar & Bottle Company¹ Nov 28, 1909 $137,200

q Coffeyville, KS plant operated for about two years

Schram Glass Manufacturing Company¹ Nov 1, 1925

q Hillsboro, IL plant $1,237,508

sold Oct 18, 1961

q Huntington, WV plant $1,170,165

shut down before WW2, sold April 1944

q Sapulpa, OK plant $382,052

operated as needed, shut down 1931.

Pine Glass Corporation¹ Jan 9, 1929 $590,000

q Okmulgee, OK plant operated until 1996

Three Rivers Glass Company 1936

q Three Rivers, TX plant – shut down 1939

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¹George Myers Company History

²Dick Roller Indiana Glass Factory Notes