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
White Glass Company the modern businessman, as entrepreneurs, rather than as workers. The company was later known as The Ohio Valley Glass Company. Several examples of the bottles manufactured at the Ohio Glass Company can be found on the web as of 2007. White Glass Company White Glass Company was one of Ohio's early members of the glass industry. It existed from 1815 until approximately 1851. Begun in Zanesville, Ohio at the South West corner of 3rd and Market Streets. It was chartered 13 May 1815 with Isaac Van Horne as President and his son in law Dr. John E. Hamm as Secretary.