Deming Jarves (1790-1869) was a 19th-century glass manufacturer in Massachusetts. He founded the New England Glass Company and the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, renowned for its pressed glass.
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Jarves was born in 1790 in Boston, Massachusetts, to a "prosperous cabinetmaker."[1] Between 1818 and 1825 Jarves worked for the New England Glass Company.[2] He conducted business from offices in Boston; the company's factory was located in East Cambridge.[3]
In 1825 he began the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company with its factory in Sandwich, Massachusetts,[4][5] specializing in blown glassware, mold-blown glass, and machine-pressed glass.[6][7] Jarves kept an office in Boston (in 1832 at 98 Water Street; in ca.1847-1851 at 45 Federal Street).[8][9][10] Jarves developed the company "to become the most important manufacturer of pressed glass in 19th-century America.[11] He left the company in 1858; it continued until 1888.
Jarves' children included John Jarves (d.1863); James Jackson Jarves; and Deming Jarves.[12]