Frank O. Myers, Fenton's First Basket Handler 1900, glassworker
Frank O. Myers got his start at a glass factory in Indiana,
Pennsylvania, the very same plant where our company's founder,
Frank L. Fenton, had begun as a glass decorator in 1897. A loyal
member of American Flint Glass Workers Local Union No. 71, Myers
became an apprentice, first learning to gather glass and, before
long, mastering pressing and blowing operations. By about 1910,
Myers was a skilled finisher, able to reshape pieces, such as
flaring and crimping the tops of vases in many different ways.
He was also adept at attaching handles to cruets or pitchers
then called "jugs." From time to time, his employer marketed
glass baskets, and Myers was the fellow who put the handles on
the baskets. glass plant at Indiana, Pa., was destroyed by fire
in mid-1931, leaving many without jobs. Myers came to work at
Fenton on February 1, 1932, transferring his union card to Local
Union No. 22 of the AFGWU, which enrolled Fenton's When Fenton
decided to cre