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- 1 2 "P.C. Dummer Glass Company". New Jersey City University. Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
Dummer was born in New Haven, CT, in 1782. He gained experience in the glass industry as a glass cutter in Albany, NY, and a glass broker and importer at 110 Broadway in New York City. When Dummer moved to Jersey City in 1824, he added a glass-cutting department to his firm, indicating an interest in the process of making as well as selling glass products. He increased to forty-four the number of steam-driven cutting wheels and experimented with materials to produce engraved and gilded glass. In time the company specialized in hand-blown, blown-molded, pressed and cut glass.
- ↑ "Death of George Dummer, Esq". New York Times . February 24, 1853. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
Monday last, died George Dummer, Esq., of Jersey City, in the 71st year of his age. He was born in Connecticut, from whence he removed to Jersey City, and entered into the flint glass manufacturing business, which he carried on successfully through all the panic that so seriously affected the business in other parts of the country ...