Ball Brothers Glass Company (Ball Glass Corporation)

The competitor whose foreclosure ended Three Rivers Glass Company — and, per Charles Tips’ account, was later itself the subject of a federal antitrust action. Based in Muncie, Indiana, one of the largest commercial glass producers in the U.S. at the time.

Bought Three Rivers Glass’s mortgage notes via attorney William Church (secretly already Ball’s own counsel) and foreclosed through Federal Court, operationally by December 1936 (Michael David Smith’s book gives 1937 for the closing — an unresolved date conflict [ev-0039]) [ev-0041]. Ran the plant through 1937, dismantled it in 1938, kept a night watchman on site for years, and sold the remaining property to Bryan Boyd and Harry J. Schulz in 1954 [ev-0040].

Name varies across documents: “Ball Brothers Glass Company,” “Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company,” and “Ball Glass Corporation” (the name used in 1938 county deeds) likely all refer to the same entity or closely related corporate structures; not fully disambiguated in sources gathered so far.

See Also

• Bryan Boyd — co-purchased the dismantled property in 1954
• Harry J. Schulz — co-purchased the dismantled property in 1954