england glass company, which was the precursor to the lily glass company started in 1818, edward drummond libby's father william langdon libbey became the agent for the new england last company in 1872, and so he learned the glass business from his father and in 1883 his father suddenly passed away unexpectedly, and he took over the business in 1888. he brought the libbe glass company here to toledo because number one there was a natural gas in nearby finley. there was high silicose sand available, which is a donut of making glass plus the businessman of toledo sweetened the pot a little bit and gave him the site for the factory as well as sites for tom has workers to build houses once they are here in toledo it. kind of faltered a bit the workers were unhappy because they didn't have their extended family around and it was not a highly developed area. so all the amenities that they were used to in the boston area. we're not available in toledo. and so he lost a bunch of workers. so he went down to west virginia to recruit more workers and not only did he recruit the workers that he needed. but h