The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware 19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Dummer, George, Jr.

Title: Ledger

Dates: 1847-1848

Call No.: Fol. 201

Acc. No.: 74x187

Quantity: 1 volume (most pages blank)

Location: 5 I 4

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

George Dummer, Jr. was a glass manufacturer in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father, George Dummer, started a glass works in Jersey City around 1826 after establishing a glass retailing shop in Manhattan. During its nearly forty years of operation, the glass works underwent numerous name changes (in the 1840s-1860s, it was P.C. Dummer & Co.) but a Dummer family member was involved in the business until 1862. Dummer produced blown glass, pressed glass, and cut glass. The Dummer Glass Company was a pioneer in obtaining patents for pressed ware.

George Dummer (1782-1853) and his brother Phineas Cook Dummer (1797-1875) were born in New Haven, Connecticut. They were two of the sons of Stephen Dummer (1755-1835) and his wife Eunice Cook (1758-1816). Phineas served as mayor, fire chief, and collector of taxes for Jersey City.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Records money owed to and paid out by George Dummer, Jr. References are made to cash books and merchandise books in most of the entries. While the names of customers and business associates are documented, products are not listed. The volume provides a record of glass workers and the marketing of ware.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from The Stradlings.

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

Jersey Glass Company.

George Dummer and Company.

P.C. Dummer and Company.

Glassware.

Glass trade - New Jersey - Jersey City.

Business records - New Jersey - Jersey City.

Ledgers.

Glassworkers.

Glassmakers.

INDEX TO NAMES IN FOL. 201 (acc. 74x187)

Note: some men were found in the 1859-1850 Jersey City directory, and a note has been made of their occupations as listed therein

Bogert, J.M. 1, 54

Bryant, Charles 88

Bryant, Gifford 9, 89

[glassblower]

Buncle, James 95

[in city directory, surname given as Bunkel; a glassblower]

Cannon, John 9, 88

[glass maker]

Carter, William 85

Collins, James 90

[glass cutter]

Collins, James, Jr. 9

Conroy, John 83

[a glassblower]

Corlies, Haydock – see Haydock, Corlies, & Co.

Curtis & Lumby 2, 43

Dalton, Thomas 103

Davenport, T. & J.S. 1-2, 55

Devine, Thomas 9, 93

[laborer]

Dockerty, Patrick 89

Donnohue, Bernard 101

[laborer]

Dummer, Augustus O. 107

[glass manufacturer]

Dummer, George 23

[glass manufacturer]

Dummer, George, Jun. 7-9, 13, 21

[glass manufacturer]

Dummer, P. C. & Co. 1-2, 7, 9, 13, 21, 41, 52, 57, 86, 89-91, 93-94

[Phineas C. Dummer, glass manufacturer]

Evans, Levi 97

Forman, Walter G. 1, 9, 52

Fox, James 94

Frere & Conklin 1, 51

Haley, John J. 1-2, 36

Haney, William 88

Haydock, Corlies & Co. 1-2, 37

[sometimes listed as Corlies, Haydock]

Kelley, James 86

[laborer]

Langreen, Charles F. 9, 91

Lyman, George D. 1, 7-9, 13, 21

[glass store]

Mathews, P. 84

McMarra, Daniel 92

McCarty, Patrick 7, 9, 86

[in the name index in the front of the volume, he is listed under the C’s, although the surname is clearly McCarty]

McQuade, John 101

Miller, Christopher 105

New York & Washington Magnetic Telegraph Co. 1-2, 39

Platt, J. S. 1

Platt, Jacob 53

Rafferty, John 87

[grocer]

Ridgeway, William 99

[glass blower]

Ross, Andrew 2, 9, 57

Treadwell, A.M. 2, 41

Veltman, Hiram, & Co. 1-2, 56

Wakeman, David B. 7, 52

[lumber yard]