(Corning Daily Journal, Monday 19 Mar 1900, p. 3)
DEATH OF THE WELL-KNOWN CUT GLASS MANUFACTURER
Oliver F. Egginton died at 1 a. m. on Sunday, March 18, at his home, 177 West Fifth street. He had been in poor health for several years from valvular disease of the heart, but he was a man of prodigious energy and kept in the house only when compelled to.
Mr. Egginton was a native of Birmingham, England, where he was born seventy-three years ago. He there learned the trade of a glass cutter, coming to this country in 1864, and being subsequently located at Portland, Maine, and Montreal, Canada. About the year 1872 he came to Corning and had since resided here. For a series of years he was foreman of the rich cut glass works of T. G. Hawkes, and a few years ago he established a manufactory of his own at Fifth and State streets. The manufactory is known as The O. F. Egginton Company, manufacturers of rich cut glass, and Mr. Egginton was President of the Company. During Mr. Egginton's illness the large establishment has been conducted by his son Walter, as foreman and general manager.
Mr. Egginton was one of the pioneers in the glass cutting industry in the United States. He possessed a thorough and extensive knowledge of the business in all its phases, and his name was well-known to the trade through-out the United States. He was a widower, and leaves two sons, Messrs. Joseph A. and Walter E. Egginton, both of Corning.
The funeral will be held at St. Mary's Church at 9 a. m. on Tuesday, and the burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.
Reprinted 18 Aug 2005