BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 552.

HARRY NORTHWOOD, general superintendent and manager of the Northwood
Glass works of Martin's Ferry, was born in Staffordshire, England,
in 1860. He is one of nine children of John Northwood, of Wordsley,
Staffordshire, one of the leading glass manufacturers of England,
and one of those who, in 1870, produced the work which received the
grand prize of the Legion of Honor. He is a very skillful and
artistic glass carver, and at one time produced a vase which was
valued at $25,000, and was sold to Tiffany & Co., New York. The subject
of this sketch, at the age of fourteen years, entered the glass factory
as an apprentice and served seven years in that capacity. He then came
to the United States, on a venture, hardly expecting to remain, but
coming on to Wheeling, he entered the employment of the Hobbs Glass
company as manager of the etching department, a position he held for
eighteen months. He then held the position of designer for the La Belle
Glass works, of Bridgeport, until the flood of 1884, when he went to
Phillipsburg, and for a year was engaged with the Phoenix company. The
La Belle works by that time were again in operation, and he accepted
the general management of the same, filling that place until the
establishment was destroyed by fire in 1887. In December of that year,
in company with Henry Helling, Henry Floto, William Mears and Thomas
Mears, he organized the Northwood Glass company, now one of the important
manufacturing corporations of the valley. Possessed of unusual mechanical
skill and knowledge, as well as tact as a manager, Mr. Northwood has
already, though comparatively young, achieved notable success in life.
He is active and enterprising in social affairs, and public spirited,
and is one of the lessees of the opera house, a favorite institution
of the place. He is a member of the Episcopal church, the Masonic
fraternity and Knights of Pythias, and is a republican. He was married,
in 1882, to Clara E. Beaumont, of England, and th~y have two children:
H. Clarence and Mabel.