people

Charles R. Tips, founder of Three Rivers and president of the glass company, drawn from the antitrust trial record and family sources

H. S. Warrick, the Ohio glass man who answered Tips' 1921 advertisement and built the Three Rivers factory as its first general manager

D. J. Woodward, Tips' father-in-law and the company's first vice president after 1925 mechanization

Harry H. Rogers, San Antonio and Tulsa businessman and one of the founding investors of Three Rivers Glass

Henderson Coquat, builder of the gas system serving the factory, first mayor of Three Rivers, and state-court receiver after 1932

James Kapp, San Antonio furniture-store owner and the company's first president at its 1922 incorporation

Albert F. Tremblay, the engineer recruited from Monterrey who built bottle-forming machinery for Three Rivers Glass under his own patent

W. L. Moody III, the Galveston multimillionaire who supplied both the gas pipeline and $100,000 in capital to Three Rivers Glass

A. H. Morton, listed as vice president in the 1922 incorporation and probable founding investor of Three Rivers Glass

Annie Hamilton, the Cuero landowner whose railroad deal created the townsite that became Three Rivers

Carl Stendebach, mold designer at Three Rivers Glass whose post-closure career is traceable through federal records to Knox Glass in Palestine

Bryan Boyd, shipping clerk who co-purchased the dismantled factory property from Ball in 1954

David J. Jones, mold maker at Three Rivers Glass who recorded a personnel roster and claimed a bottle-design credit

Gus J. Menger, president of H&H Coffee in San Antonio and a documented customer of Three Rivers Glass

Assessment of the unverified claim that Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum served on the Three Rivers Glass design staff

Harry J. Schulz, attorney who co-purchased the former factory property in 1954 and sold its refractory materials to Mexican manufacturers

John Finkbeiner, contracted in 1921 to erect the factory and later its plant manager after 1925 mechanization

John Matthijetz, bottle packer at Three Rivers Glass whose 1971 letter corroborates the post-foreclosure Tips Glass venture

John Nance Garner, U.S. Speaker of the House and stockholder in the Three Rivers bank who intervened to save it during the Depression

Kevin L. Mackey, Grace Armantrout Museum president whose skepticism about the closure narrative spurred deeper investigation

Lucas Diaz, Ball Glass Corporation tank supervisor at Three Rivers whose 1938 reference letter documents Ball's post-foreclosure presence

Mrs. William Hinnant, chairman of the Live Oak County Historical Survey Committee who led the 1973 marker project

Pat Swearingen, Tips' attorney and founding investor who helped secure the 1922 charter for Three Rivers Glass

Jesse Jones, RFC chairman whose endorsement of Tips' loan application nearly saved the factory from foreclosure

Thelma Pugh Lindholm, Live Oak County historian whose 1971 letter to Tips prompted the account that became this expert's core document

Viola Ebel Adlof, Three Rivers community member who read Tips' speech at the 1973 marker dedication and assisted Smith's 1989 book

Michael David Smith, author of the only book-length history of Three Rivers Glass, published in 1989

William Church, the San Antonio attorney who represented both the bondholders and Ball Brothers in the 1936 acquisition of the plant

R. A. Ellerman, the company officer who served under all three regimes -- Tips, the receivership, and Ball Glass Corporation

S. S. Searcy, Hartford-Empire's Texas attorney who managed the Three Rivers account from 1932 through the 1936 sale