Edward Drummond Libbey founded the Libbey Glass Company in Toledo, Ohio in 1888 after moving the operations from New England Glass Works in Massachusetts to take advantage of natural gas resources, sand deposits, and transportation access in Toledo. Libbey Glass Company, later renamed Libbey Inc., helped establish Toledo as a center of the glass industry under Edward Drummond Libbey's leadership from 1888 until his death in 1925.

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3.  Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) is the father of the
glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey
Glass Company (later Libbey, Inc.) in 1888.
 Libbey has its roots in East Cambridge, Massachusetts,
home of the New England Glass Company which was
founded in 1818. William L. Libbey took over the company
in 1878 and renamed it the New England Glass Works, Wm.
L. Libbey & Sons Props. In 1888, facing growing
competition, Edward Drummond Libbey moved the
company to Toledo, Ohio. The Northwest Ohio area offered
considerable natural gas resources and access to huge
deposits of high quality sand. Toledo also had a network of
railway and steamship lines, making it an ideal location for
the company. In 1892, the name was changed to The Libbey
Glass Company.