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American engineer living in Mexico who had built automated glassmaking machinery for a Monterrey factory; recruited by Tips to break Hartford Empire's machinery monopoly. Relocated…
Next: None. Name-spelling variance (Tremblay/Trembley, initials A.F. vs. first name Harold) is a documented, not-yet-resolved source discrepancy.
Listed as vice president in the company's April 1922 officer roster (Manufacturers Record), and separately as secretary of the affiliated Three Rivers Construction Company (gas pip…
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Landowner of Cuero, Texas whose property became the original townsite; she and her son Thornton negotiated with the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad Company to route the line …
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Co-purchased the former factory property from Ball Glass Corporation in 1954 alongside Harry J. Schulz. Also appears as a named factory employee in earlier period photo captions (s…
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Founder of both the town of Three Rivers (1913) and the Three Rivers Glass Company (1922). Served as secretary/treasurer 1922-1929, then president from 1929. Lost the factory in a …
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Became the Three Rivers Glass Company's first vice president shortly after the 1925 mechanization, per Michael David Smith's 1989 book. No other sources corroborate this detail; si…
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The only individual the record explicitly names as a Three Rivers Glass mold maker. The Lindholm marker-research binder lists 'DAVID J JONES MOULD MAKER 1928' (later of 1107 E. Bow…
Next: Seek corroboration: Beeville-area obituary, Find-a-Grave entry, or 1930 census line (Three Rivers, Live Oak County, occupation 'mold maker'). Genealogy sites were bot-blocked to agents; needs a browser session.
President of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company (H&H) of San Antonio; placed one of the largest single glass orders in Texas history with Three Rivers Glass in 1932 — a quarter-mil…
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The Mount Rushmore sculptor's celebrated connection to Three Rivers Glass — that he joined the design staff ca. 1930 while 'residing in nearby Beeville' — is now assessed as unveri…
Next: Locate a period primary document (Three Rivers Progress/News clipping, payroll record, or the original exhibit-caption photograph) that either corroborates or kills the design-staff claim. Portal to Texas History full-text search requires a browser session.
Cleveland, Ohio glassmaker whose own factory had burned down; answered Tips' 1921 trade-magazine ad, relocated to Three Rivers, and served as the company's first general manager (1…
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San Antonio and Tulsa businessman; one of the founding investors covering the company's initial $50,000 capital in 1922, per Tips' own letters. Later described by Tips as one of tw…
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Co-purchased the former factory property from Ball Glass Corporation in 1954 alongside Bryan Boyd, and personally corresponded (as 'Attorney At Law') with Mexican glass manufacture…
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San Antonio furniture-store owner and founding investor; the Three Rivers Glass Company's first president upon incorporation in May 1922, with Charles Tips serving as secretary/tre…
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Houston businessman appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to head the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. A personal acquaintance of Charles Tips; approved the $100,000 RFC …
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Appears in two distinct roles across the record: credited by a 1921 trade-press record with the original decision to site the factory at Three Rivers (over San Diego/LA alternative…
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Former Three Rivers Glass Factory employee (bottle packer and carton assembler, August 1936-1937) whose 1971 letter to Thelma Lindholm is the primary corroborating source for a Hou…
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Vice President of the United States (1933-1941); a personal connection of Charles Tips who, per Tips' own account, helped save the bank at Three Rivers during the Depression when i…
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President of the Grace Armantrout Museum, Live Oak County, Texas. Compiled a 2017 article collection for the Three Rivers Glass Company Glass and Bottle Show, and emailed this proj…
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Former tank supervisor for Ball Glass Corporation at the Three Rivers plant; subject of a September 9, 1938 reference letter praising his three years of service and thorough unders…
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Author of Texas Glass: An Illustrated History of The Three Rivers Glass Company, 1922-1937 (Starsmith Publication, 1989) — the only dedicated published history of the company, and …
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Chairman of the Live Oak County Historical Survey Committee; led the 1973 effort to erect the Texas Historical Marker for the Three Rivers Glass Factory site and chaired the dedica…
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San Antonio attorney and Tips' own lawyer; one of the founding investors who covered the $50,000 needed to build the factory in 1922, per Charles Tips' own 1973 letter.
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Recruited by Tips from Ohio, where he had worked for a glass factory, to run the Three Rivers office, purchasing, and collections. Signed the 1928 Tremblay bill of sale as a witnes…
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Local historian who compiled the research behind the May 26, 1973 Texas Historical Marker for the Three Rivers Glass Factory site, corresponded directly with Charles Tips (whose tw…
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Read Charles Tips' prepared speech at the May 26, 1973 historical marker dedication after Tips was in a car accident en route from Dallas and could not attend. Thanked by name in M…
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Galveston financier who owned United Gas Company (supplying Three Rivers' gas) and joined the company's board around 1930 after buying $100,000 of stock in 1929 — the transaction t…
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San Antonio attorney, paid $500 by Three Rivers Glass to secure a Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan condition in 1936. Secretly already representing Ball Brothers Glass Compa…
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