Christian Dorflinger
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Glasses by Dorflinger for the Lincoln dinner service in the White House
Christian Dorflinger (1828–1915), was an American glass manufacturer.
Biography[]
He was born in Rosteig, a small village in the Alsace region of Northern France on the German border. When his father died he was apprenticed to a glass manufacturer in Lorraine, but he accompanied his mother when she decided to emigrate to the United States.[1] Together with his brother Edward he went to work for a glass factory in Camden, NJ. He began his own factory in Brooklyn, NY in 1852. The next year he opened the Long Island Flint Glass Works, and in 1860 he opened the Greenpoint Glass Works.
He built his largest factory in White Mills, PA, where he later died.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Christian Dorflinger Archived March 1, 2014, at the Wayback Machine on Dorflinger Glass museum website
- Christian Dorflinger on Dorflinger Glass museum website
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