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East Liverpool, Ohio
- 1853 Isaac Knowles & Isaac Harvey were in partnership, operating a store boat along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
Merchandise included pottery, glass, kitchenware and staples
- 1854 they founded a factory for the production of yellow ware, exapanding to bisque and other ware
- 1856 Knowles bought out Harvey's interest
- 1870 Isaacs son Homer Knowles, and John W Taylor Isaacs son-in-law, joined the business.
The name became Knowles, Taylor & Knowles
- 1872 they added white granite ware to the lines
- 1888 they built a new plant Art China Works. The building burned immediately but was rebuilt
- also in 1888, Joseph G Lee and Willis A Knowles joined the firm
- 1891 they incorporated
- 1889 they were producing Lotus Ware
- by 1901 they operated 35 kilns and employeed 700 people
- 1929 they merged with the American China Corporation which failed due to the depression
                                      
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