Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-10-20
HIS TORICAL SOCIETY.
Fall Meeting Held in the Presby-
terrain Church, GIassboro, ON
Monday, Oct. 10th


terrain Church, ssIassboro, on
Monday, Oct. 10th
The Gloucester County Historical
Society Held an interesting session in
/ the Glassboro Presbyterian Church on
Monday afternoon Following the
transaction of routine business Prose
cutor of the Pleas Lewis Starr read a
valuable paper on THE Colonial
Courts Of South Jersey, which will
be published in our next issue.
John R. Downer read paper on
THE Glass Sands of Gloucester Coun-
ty which contained a fund of infor-
nation. A paper prepared by Thomas
w. Synnott on History of the Glass
/ Works at Glassboro," was read by w.
Harrison Livermore and is as follows.
In 1775 a number of glass blowers
by the name of Stranger, who had been
/ working at Wister's Glass Works in
Salem County, moved to Glassboro
and purchased from Archibald Moffett
a piece of land directly opposite where
one of his descendants (Mr. Isaac Moi
fett) now resides. 1t was then cover.
ed with pine timber After clearing
the land they built small furnace
and began the manufacture of bottles
during that year.
u The factory at Alloways at which
Ley had formerly been employed was
hi success, and many of the work
moved to the new location The
was operated in the name OF
&roIhers, there being six or
s.c. <Af Lo4
They were fairly sue
eir enterprise for a num-
but during the War of the
some time in 1880 or 1881
Kne depreciation of Continen
Fncy, which at that time was
Ebout three cents on the dollar
I'd, they failed and being unable
F4y their debts were imprisoned at
Bucester, which was then the County
at of Gloucester County The fol
6wing year the property was sold by
*The Sheriff under judgment and was
purchased by Colonel Thomas Heston
and Thomas Carpenter (tfe last nam
ed being the founder OF Carpenters
Landing, now Mantua) who operated
the works were enlarged and they also
/ the firm name of Heston & Carpenter.
4 During the time of their ownership
the works was enlarged and they also
engaged in the manufacture of flint
glass and window glass. The original
furnace was used only for the manu-
facture of dark green glass in which
! wood ashes were largely used
The location fer the establishment
OF the factory was chosen on account
OF the quality of the sand, and the
! plentiful supply of pine wood. wood
being the only fuel used in the manu-
! facture Of glass at this time Heston
d Carpenter operated the works for
nearly twenty years until Colonel Hes
tons death in 1902, when Edward Car
penter, the son of Thomas Carpenter
acquired an interest in the business.
From this time the business was car
RED on under the name of Edward
carpenter Il Co, under which title it
continued for several years.
In 1906 Eben Whitney, ESQ. of Cas-
tine, Maine, a sea captain while on a
voyage from the Islands of Madeira to
the City of Philadelphia. was wrecked
on the South Jersey coast near Cape
May, and while engaged in repairing
his vessel found it necessary to make
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and Philadelphia In this way he became
acquainted with a daughter of Colonel
Heston and they were married in Au-
gust OF the following year After his
marriage he settled at Glassboro. the
name having been changed from He's
tons Glass Works to Glassboro about
the year 1900 at meeting Of the Glou-
cester Fox Hunting Club, held at the
house of Colonel Heston. After the
death of Colonel Heston in 1902. there
were number of changes in the firm
and we find the names of Peter Wycoff.
David Wolf, Joshua Paul (whose wife
was also daughter of Colonel He's
ton) Daniel Focer, Isaac Thorn. J. J.
Foster Daniel H. Miller as owners in
the property.
In 1913 new company was organic
ed in sGlassboro by John Rink Daniel
Focer and Levi L. Campbell. and the
works We're called the Harmony Glass
! Works. They We're located on the site
4 now occupied by THE Whitney Glass
Works. In 1924 the original plant
built in 1775 was. after fifty years
operation. abandoned and the business
/ consolidated with that of the new com
pany
rms company operated successfully.
About this time (1824) Daniel H. Nil,
Ter, OF Philadelphia, who was the pro
A prietor of the window glass works at
4 Malaga, which had been erected about
ten years before, became interested
in the works at Glassboro. and some
years later purchased the interest of
Lewis Stranger. who in connection with
his brother Jacob afterwards erected
q bottle factory at what is now known
as Temperanceville, but was then call.
ed Lewisville.
In 1885 Thomas H. Whitney purchas-
ed an interest in the Harmony Glass
Works, as it was then called, and sub
i sequently purchased the entire bust
ness, and in 1912 with his brother.
Samuel A. Whitney formed the firm
lof Whitney Brothers. In 1912 the