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William Shaw George purchased the controlling interest in the East Palestine Pottery Company from the Sebring brothers in 1904, renaming the company The W. S. George Pottery Company. In 1910 the company opened a manufacturing facility in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania ("Plant #2"), and in 1914 another facility was opened in Kittanning, Pennsylvania ...
In 1933, she moved to Chicago with Paul Lester Wiener and worked as a designer for the Contempora Group and the Sebring Pottery Company. Her use of lead glazes and the potential effect of lead poisoning on her mental and physical health have not been evaluated. She died on September 1, 1945, of stomach cancer in a New York hospital.
Sebring was founded by the Sebring family from East Liverpool, Ohio, who were successful pottery owners that sought to establish their own pottery town. [5] Sebring was incorporated 1899. [5] Much of the original family built the establishing houses and factories in the town, which at their high employed approximately 3,300 workers. [5]
The grave of J.A. Bauer, founder of the original pottery company, is visible from an upstairs window. J.A. Bauer died in 1923, and 100 years later the Bauer showroom faces a similar fate.
Viktor Schreckengost (June 26, 1906 – January 26, 2008) was an American industrial designer as well as a teacher, sculptor, and artist. His wide-ranging work included noted pottery designs, industrial design, bicycle design and seminal research on radar feedback.
The Royal China Company was a dinnerware manufacturer in Sebring, Ohio, established in 1934 and ceased operations in 1986. [1]In 1934, Beatrice Miller, William H. Habenstreit, and John Bert Briggs were on South 15th Street in Sebring, Ohio, after buying the former E. H. Sebring China Company (formerly the Oliver China Company building).