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Logan Pottery The Logan Pottery was organized in Logan, Hocking County (in the south central region of Ohio) by the brothers Frank and Charles Adcock on 29 May 1902. The pottery began operation in January, 1903. Frank, a schoolteacher, eventually left the pottery and Charles continued to manage it until his death in 1934. The pottery continued in operation under the management of his sons Ross and Lawrence until it closed in 1964. Over [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry Louis, Ohio Potter According to A History of Coshocton County by N. N. Hill, Jr., (1881, page 574) Henry Louis produced stoneware products in New Castle, Ohio in the 1870′s. He produced stoneware on a smaller scale than other potteries in the area, but was still active in 1881. Ohio stoneware expert Professor Robert Treichler has found Lewis listing himself as “making stoneware” in the 1870 census. His widowed mother Elizabeth was a [...] Click here to continue reading. Prosper Rich Ohio potter Prosper Rich produced stoneware products at New Castle (originally named West Liberty, later Caldersburg, and then New Castle, in Coshocton County), in the late 1850′s. He moved a pottery operation to Roscoe Village (also Coshocton County) in the 1860′s. He purchased this Roscoe Village property from George Bagnall about 1869. Rich purchased additional local property in 1870 and 1871. Caroline (Kate) Rich, Prosper and Melissa Rich’s daughter, married G. A. [...] Click here to continue reading. Marion and Donald Woelbing, Franklin Wisconsin. Marion and Donald Woelbing were the solid citizen types that for generations have built American small businesses. They were a true partnership supporting each other in their diverse interests ranging from breeding and showing American Kennel Club grand champion prize winning dogs, to building with their own hands “Thorntree,” their home in suburban Milwaukee, to building an impressive collection of 17th and 18th century American antiques, to collecting [...] Click here to continue reading. Ex Collection of Thomas S. Holman: Souvenirs of The Grand Tour In the 18th and early 19th century young Englishmen embarked on lengthy travels to the Continent, known as the Grand Tour. Ostensibly, the voyage was to round out one’s education, which still emphasized a strong knowledge of Classical arts and architecture, languages, history, literature, and philosophy. It also provided months, and sometimes even years, to collect art and artifacts. Later in the [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Margaret and Lawrence H. Skromme, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lawrence H. Skromme, P.E. was a lover of farms and farmers all his life. He was born on a farm in Roland, Iowa on August 26, 1913, the son of Norwegian immigrant parents Austin G. and Ingeborg (Belle) Holmedal Skromme. Lawrence Skromrne graduated from Kelley, Iowa High School in 1931 winning an agricultural scholarship for his work in Future farmers of America. He graduated from [...] Click here to continue reading. Solomon Purdy, Ohio Potter Solomon Purdy began potting circa 1820 in Putnam, Ohio, where he made utilitarian and slip decorated redware as well as roofing tiles. He lived for a time in the German community of Zoar, circa 1820 to 1850, before returning to Atwater, Ohio in 1850, where his son Gordon was potting stoneware circa 1850 to 1870. Solomon Purdy’s stoneware is variously marked “S. Purdy Zoar”, “S. Purdy Atwater” as well as [...] Click here to continue reading. A History of the Norton Family Pottery in Bennington, Vermont and Marks Used One of the most iconic objects from 18th- and 19th-century is stoneware, particularly pieces with cobalt decoration, and few people did cobalt-decorated salt-glazed stoneware pottery better than the Norton family of Vermont. The Norton pottery dynasty actually predates Vermont’s statehood, founded as it was by Captain John Norton in 1785, although stoneware was not what was initially manufactured. Unmarked redware pieces [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Gertrude Dittmar, Colts Neck, New Jersey In 1943, from the army camp where he was stationed, my father wrote to my grandparents asking them to store for him an 18th century table and corner cupboard he’d just purchased for the home he would make with my mother after the war. Once in that home, these two pieces were gradually joined by others, until the farmhouse my parents share for over half a [...] Click here to continue reading. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920 to 2012) An American heiress and philanthropist, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans was the great-granddaughter of tobacco industrialist and Duke University benefactor Washington Duke. She was born Mary Duke Biddle on February 21, 1920 to Mary Lillian Duke and Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. Her father was the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland and Spain. Semans was raised in Manhattan, where she attended the Hewitt School in New [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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