The Root Glass Company the center portion of the newly designed sample Coca-Cola bottle. With limited time remaining before the molten glass furnaces would be shut down for cleaning, Dean produced a few sample bottles that would be submitted to the national Coca-Cola bottle contest. The Root Glass Company The Root Glass Company originated as Root Glass Works in Vigo County, Indiana. Businessman and Pennsylvania native Chapman J. Root (November 22, 1864 - November 20, 1945) opened the original glass company on May 27, 1901, at Third and Voorhees Streets a year after he moved to the city of Terre Haute, Indiana. By 1904
Fostoria Glass Company short time later. Despite the association, Fostoria Glass Company did not become part of the National Glass Company. William A. B. Dalzell joined the company as general manager in 1901. Dalzell was from Pittsburgh, and his initial experience in the glass industry was with Pittsburgh’s Adams and Company. The Dalzell brothers had been involved with the glass business as owners and management in West Virginia and Ohio. In 1899, he worked for National Glass Company, and from there he had joined the Fostoria Glass Company. Also joining the firm from Dalzell's Ohio plant was Calvin B. Roe, who had been