Deming Jarves

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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Brief biography

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]

Selected writing

References

  1. ^ Kathleen Luhrs. American glass at Corning. The Magazine Antiques, 1 Apr 2008. Vol.173,Iss.4;p.30(1)
  2. ^ Gordon Campbell, ed. Grove encyclopedia of decorative arts. Oxford University Press US, 2006.
  3. ^ Bruce E. Johnson. Sandwich glass. Country Living 19, no.5, May 1996.
  4. ^ Grove encyclopedia of decorative arts. 2006.
  5. ^ Rambles in New England. New York Daily Times, Jul 9, 1852. p.1.
  6. ^ http://www.sandwichglassmuseum.org/about_us/history
  7. ^ 1825: Business and industry; science; education; philosophy and religion. Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates (Edition 9, 1993); p.173.
  8. ^ Boston directory. 1832.
  9. ^ Boston almanac. 1847.
  10. ^ Boston directory. 1851.
  11. ^ Bruce E. Johnson. Sandwich glass. Country Living 19, no.5, May 1996.
  12. ^ Boston Daily Globe, Jul 28, 1925. p.A24.

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