Deming Jarves
Encyclopedia
Deming Jarves 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
.
In 1825 he began the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company with its factory in Sandwich, Massachusetts
, specializing in blown
glassware, mold-blown glass, and machine-pressed glass. Jarves kept an office in Boston (in 1832 at 98 Water Street; in ca.1847-1851 at 45 Federal Street). Jarves developed the company "to become the most important manufacturer of pressed glass in 19th-century America. He left the company in 1858; it continued until 1888.
Jarves' children included John Jarves (d.1863); James Jackson Jarves
; and Deming Jarves.
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
. He founded the New England Glass Company
New England Glass Company
The New England Glass Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was established by "Amos Binney, Edmund Munroe, Daniel Hastings, and Deming Jarves ... on February 16, 1818. It produced both blown and pressed glass objects in a variety of ... colors, which had engraved, cut, etched, and gilded decorations...
and the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company was incorporated in 1826 to hold the glass factory built a year earlier in Sandwich, Massachusetts, by Deming Jarves. The factory was closed in 1888 amid disputes with the newly formed glassmaker's labor union....
, renowned for its pressed glass
Pressed glass
Pressed glass is a form of glass made using a plunger to press molten glass into a mold. It was first patented by American inventor John P. Bakewell in 1825 to make knobs for furniture....
.
Brief biography
Jarves was born in 1790 in Boston, Massachusetts, to a "prosperous cabinetmaker." Between 1818 and 1825 Jarves worked for the New England Glass Company. He conducted business from offices in Boston; the company's factory was located in East Cambridge.In 1825 he began the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company with its factory in Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandwich is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 20,675 at the 2010 census. The Town Hall is located right next to the Dexter Grist Mill, in the historic district of town....
, specializing in blown
Glassblowing
Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble, or parison, with the aid of a blowpipe, or blow tube...
glassware, mold-blown glass, and machine-pressed glass. Jarves kept an office in Boston (in 1832 at 98 Water Street; in ca.1847-1851 at 45 Federal Street). Jarves developed the company "to become the most important manufacturer of pressed glass in 19th-century America. He left the company in 1858; it continued until 1888.
Jarves' children included John Jarves (d.1863); James Jackson Jarves
James Jackson Jarves
James Jackson Jarves was an American newspaper editor, and art critic who is remembered above all as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters....
; and Deming Jarves.
Selected writing
- Deming Jarves. Reminiscences of glass-making, 2nd ed. Hurd and Houghton, 1865.
External links
- WorldCat. Deming Jarves
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/preservationmass/sets/72157619401744414/ Photos of former glassworkers' houses in the Jarvesville neighborhood, Sandwich, MA