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Captain John Baptiste Ford (November 17, 1811 – May 1, 1903) was an American industrialist and founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, now known as PPG Industries, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Although John Baptiste Ford and his sons did business in an era when many industries and capitalists built their empires on a foundation of exploited workers. John Baptiste Ford served as a role model of resourcefulness, persistence, and perseverance.
John Baptiste Ford is known as the "father of the plate glass industry" in the United States and ultimately founded the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company which became PPG industries.
The story of Stonehurst and the Schlotman Family begins with Captain John Baptiste Ford, brilliant entrepreneur, industrialist and founder of one of America's great family fortunes. Capt. Ford was born on November 17, 1811 in a log cabin in Danville, Kentucky.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company was founded in 1883 by Captain John Baptiste Ford and John Pitcairn, Jr., at Creighton, Pennsylvania. PPG soon became the United States' first commercially successful producer of high-quality, thick flat glass using the plate process.
Edward Ford (also the builder of the Ford-Bacon House across the street) was the son of glass pioneer John Baptiste Ford and the founder of the Michigan Alkali Company in Wyandotte and the Ford Plate Glass Company in Toledo, Ohio, (later the Libbey–Owens–Ford Company).
Captain John Baptiste Ford was an American industrialist and founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, now known as PPG Industries, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
