edward drummond libbey, he was born in 1854. the new england glass company, which was the precursor to the libbey glass company, started in 1818. edward drummond libbey's father became the agent for the new england glass 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 libbey glass company here to toledo. because, number one, there was natural gas in nearby findlay. there was high silicon us sand available. which is a component of making glass. toledoe businessmen of sweetened the pot a little bit and gave him the site for the factory as well as sites for his workers to build houses. once they were here in toledo, kind of faltered a bit. the workers were unhappy because they do not have their family around. and it was not a highly developed area, so all of the amenities that they were used to in the boston area were not available in toledo. and so he lost a bunch of workers. so he went down to wes