Answer to Last Month “Who Am I?”

Charles Boldt was the man who founded the Muncie Glass Company and eventually became a director of Owens-Illinois. Boldt Mason Jars were first made on April 1^st, 1905. The company owned plants in both Muncie and Cincinnati at the time. The Cincinnati plant was known as the Charles Boldt Glass Works.

Written by Richard Cole,

© 2002 Minnetrista Cultural Center

This article first appeared in the November 2002 issue of the Glass Chatter.