#charles-r-tips
4 articles · 8 raw sources · 1 inventory
How Ball Brothers took Three Rivers Glass, told through three procedural accounts: Tips' own story (a San Antonio attorney hired to secure RFC-loan priority secretly served Ball, w…
Charles Rudolph Tips (born June 5, 1892) founded the town of Three Rivers, Texas in 1913 and the Three Rivers Glass Company in 1922, built it into a national glass-container concer…
The sales entity Charles R. Tips ran, distinct from the Three Rivers Glass factory itself, after losing the plant to Ball Brothers Glass Company in the December 1936 foreclosure. T…
A commercial glassware manufacturer that operated in Three Rivers, Texas from 1922 to 1938, founded by Charles R. Tips and built on local sand, natural gas, and machinery worked ar…
Inventory
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 …
Next: None — fully documented. Death date not yet established; worth a follow-up lookup if a museum exhibit needs a full lifespan.
Raw sources
- Three Rivers Glass Company — Homepage · 2026-07-24
- Three Rivers Glass Company — About Page · 2026-07-25
- Kevin Mackey — Corrections & Notes on Three Rivers Glass History (email) · 2026-07-24
- Texas Glass (Michael David Smith, 1989) — Original Print Edition Scans (vision-OCR transcription) · 2026-07-25
- Texas Glass: An Illustrated History of The Three Rivers Glass Company, 1922-1937 (Michael David Smith, 1989) · 2026-07-25
- Three Rivers Glass Company — Article Collection (Kevin L. Mackey, 2017) (vision-OCR transcription) · 2026-07-25
- Three Rivers Glass Factory — Historical Marker Research and History (vision-OCR transcription) · 2026-07-25
- Three Rivers Glass Co. — Encyclopedia of Manufacturer's Marks on Glass Containers (Bill Lockhart, Beau Schriever, Bob Brown, Bill Lindsey & Carol Serr, Bottle Research Group, 2019) · 2026-07-26