Ed Ford is Born

On This Day | Posted by: Tedd Long | 01/21/2026

1843: Edward Ford, the founder of the Edward Ford Plateglass Company which later merged with Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company to become Libbey-Owens-Ford in 1930, is born in Greenville, Indiana. Ford was the son of “Captain” John B Ford (1811-1903), the father of American Plate Glass,