New England Glass Company

The New England Glass Company was incorporated in 1818, run by Deming Jarvis. By 1849, it was recognized as the largest glass company in the World with 500 employees. During the second half of the century, while other companies adopted a new method for producing glass (soda lime glass) the NEGC continued the manufacture of flint glass considering the new glass to be of inferior quality. In the later years of the century the NEGC specialized in highly elaborate flint glass. After a period of difficulties with mismanagement and striking workers, the company was relocated to Toledo, Ohio under the name of the Libbey Glass Company.