Manufacturer Notes: Samuel McKee & CompanyPittsburgh DirectoriesPennsylvania Directories _______________________________________________________________________________________ Oct 16, 1858 S. McKee & co., 10 boxes glass............. 20.25 Fourth Annual Report Of The Board Of Trustees And Officers Of The Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum (Columbus, Richard Nevins, 1859) _______________________________________________________________________________________ WINDOW GLASS FACTORIES Firm Office Estab'd By Furnaces Pots Factories S. McKee & Co....62 Water st 1836 S. McKee & Co 2 20 2 GREEN GLASS WORKS Firm Office Estab'd By Furnaces Pots Factories S. McKee & Co....62 Water st 1836 S. McKee & Co 1 7 1 Thurston, George H.; Pittsburgh And Allegheny In The Centennial Year (Pittsburgh, A. A. Anderson & Son, 1876) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Samuel James & Thomas McKee built and carried on in Birmingham. in 1836. The following firms are now engaged in manufacturing of cylinder or window glass: Furnaces Pots S. McKee & Co., Pittsburg 3 24 (Note: S. McKee & Co. were not listed as beer bottle manufacturers) Africa, J. Simpson; Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania Part III Industrial Statistics Vol. XIII (Harrisburg, E. K. Meyers, 1885) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Window Glass Factories Firm Office Estab'd By Furnaces Pots Factories S. McKee & Co 13 & Carson 1836 S. McKee & Co 3 26 3 ......... Green Glass Factories Firm Office Estab'd By Furnaces Pots Factories ......... S. McKee & Co. 62 Water street 1836 S. McKee & Co 1 7 1 ......... Thurston, George H., Pittsburgh's Progress, Industry and Resources 1886 (Pittsburgh, A. A. Anderson & Son, 1886) _______________________________________________________________________________________ .....Just when the company ceased making glass is not recorded. Their buildings were being used as warehouses as late as 1911 (owned by the Hartje estate), when they burned with a loss of 2,800 barrels of glass--barrels being the most common shipping container of the day. Toulouse, Julian Harrison; Bottle Makers And Their Marks (New York, Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1971) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Go To North American Soda & Beers Home |