Edward Libbey Information
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) is the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey Glass Company (later Libbey, Inc.) in 1888.
Biography
Libbey was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA. After attending Boston University, he worked for the New England Glass Company beginning in 1874, becoming president from 1883 to 1886.
He opened the Libbey Glass Co in Toledo, Ohio, in 1888, sponsoring a demonstration plant at the Chicago exposition of 1893. His success depended heavily on the inventions of Michael Joseph Owens. In 1903, Libbey founded the Owens Bottle Machine Company (later Owens-Illinois), and, in 1916, the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, serving as president of both firms.
He was the founder of the Toledo Museum of Art in 1901, serving as its president from 1901 to 1925, funding building construction, and bequeathing to the museum his collection of Dutch and English art. Libbey High School in Toledo, Ohio, is named after him.
See also
- Libbey Owens Ford
- Georgia Cayvan - wore his first glass dress made in 1893
- Ojai, California - early civic leader
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| Date of death | 1925 |
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Categories:
- Glass makers
- Businesspeople from Ohio
- History of Toledo, Ohio
- History of Ventura County, California
- People from Toledo, Ohio
- People from Ventura County, California
- 1854 births
- 1925 deaths
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