Talk:Whitall Tatum Company

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To the creator of the article "Whitall Tatum Company": Although the information you present in the article provides an excellent reference, I'd like to point out that your assertion that the Whitall Tatum Company was not the first glass works in America is incorrect. The Wistarburg works in nearby Salem County was opened in 1739.

Earlier Glassworks

Agreed. Not only was Wistarburg opened prior (1739) but several other glass houses also preceded Whitall Tatum. Adeline Pepper in Glass Gaffers of New Jersey lists Glass House, NJ, owned by the Stangers, as the second glass house. Although I don't note a definitive start date for that glass house, Dr. Nicholas Collin, pastor of the Friesburg Church in 1780, wrote in his diary, translated from Swedish, that the family glasshouse was running in 1780. The Stangers lost their glassworks in Dornhagen because of political strife, came to the U.S. and worked at Wistar until approximately 1774 when they opened their own glassworks in what is now known as Glassboro, and the Glassboro works changed hands and names several times (Olive Glass Works, Harmony Glassworks. Whitney Glassworks set up nearby in 1775. Subsequent later furnaces followed at Malaga, Marshallville, and New Brooklyn, as well as the earlier Port Elizabeth (Eagle Glass Works, 1795). A good reference is Adeline Peppers' "The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and their creations from 1739 to the present" published 1971, Charles Scribners and Sons.

Rbrechtcu (talk) 15:04, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello. To whomever posted the photo of the insulator, just wanted to mention that the insulator shown is a CD 155 (a specific shape/style in the "CD numbering" system of identification used by glass insulator collectors) and that type was not introduced by WT until 1938. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.108.89.146 (talk) 19:11, 17 July 2011 (UTC)