 ... furnace of the same capacity as the one above mentioned, was below Jones' Ferry, nearly opposite the Point, where other glass-houses now stand. Green glass was made at this factory, which went into operation in 1797. A memorandum was found among Gen'l...  Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Page 477by Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Denny - 1859 - 324 pages
...stone building was standing four or five years ago ; its site below Jones' Ferry, on the Monongnhela, nearly opposite the Point, is now occupied by other...claims to be the leading staple of the " Iron City." "Laflfur," (p. 24.) The glass blower, concerned with Denny and Beelen in the glass works at the lower... | |
 | New Sweden. Upland court - 1860 - 542 pages
...for the manufacture of glass. This first establishment made green glass. In a note of General 0'Hara, found among his papers after his death, in his own...(p. 228.) The glass blower, concerned with Denny and Bcelen in the glass works at the lower end of the present town of Manchester, was drowned in the Ohio... | |
 | John Leander Bishop - 1861 - 668 pages
...operation in 1797. A memorandum was found among Gen'l O'Hara's papers, after his death, to this effect : "To-day we made the first bottle at the cost of thirty thousand dollars." Flint-glass and window-glass were soon after added to the manufactures, and the proprietor and others... | |
 | John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young - 1864 - 758 pages
...operation in 1797. A memorandum was found among Gen'l O'Hara's papers, after his death, to this effect : " To-day we made the first bottle at the cost of thirty thousand dollars." Flint-glass and window-glass were soon after added to the manufactures, and the proprietor and others... | |
 | John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young - 1866 - 649 pages
...operation in 1797. A memorandum was found among Gen'l O'Hara's papers, after his death, to this effect : " To-day we made the first bottle at the cost of thirty thousand dollars." Flint-glass and window-glass were soon after added to the manufactures, and the proprietor and others... | |
 | 1893 - 902 pages
...suggests that for a time at least the outgo made more impression upon him than the income, for it reads, " To-day we made the first bottle, at the cost of thirty thousand dollars." Many difficulties had to be met and overcome before the works proved successful. They were subsequently... | |
 | William Mason Cornell - 1876 - 598 pages
...seems to have been attended with great expense, for a memorandum left by one of its owners states, " To-day we made the first bottle at the cost of thirty thousand dollars." In 1804 a foundery for casting 1 Sipes's Pennsylvania Railroad, p. 170. hollow-ware went into operation... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 pages
...J»mei O'Hara and Mr. Craig. A memorandum, found after his death among General O'Hara'a papers, read, "To-day we made the first bottle, at the cost of thirty thousand dollars." Flint-glass and window-glass were afterwards made, and coal was used as fuel. 1797. — A CHARTER was... | |
 | 1893 - 922 pages
...suggests that for a time at least the outgo made more impression upon him than the income, for it reads, " To-day we made the first bottle, at the cost of thirty thousand dollars." Many difficulties had to be met and overcome before the works proved successful. They were subsequently... | |
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