It's fitting that Jeannette, Pennsylvania, which was named after the wife of one of the town's founders, Henry Sellers McKee, would spawn a glassworks named after the town of Jeannette. After all, the McKee family had been in the glassware business since the 1830s, which means that by the time the Jeannette Bottle Works was founded in 1888—it would be renamed Jeannette Glass Company in 1898—the McKees has been glassmakers for half a...Continue Reading