David Yuile

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David Yuile (20 February 1846 – 21 June 1909) was a Canadian businessman. Yuile, along with his brother William, owned and operated various glass manufacturing companies through his life. He also served as the president of the Dominion Textile Company.

David was born February 20, 1846, in

Canada West, settling around Ingersoll. David attended school there, later moving with his family to Montreal in 1869, where William Yuile, the family's eldest son, became a general merchant. David was hired on by William in 1870. As the business continued to prosper, the brothers also began to act as manufacturer's agents and wholesale druggists. In 1875 they were hired to act as the manufacturer's agent for the newly formed St Johns Glass Company of Saint-Jean, which they acquired on June 1, 1878, to cover debts owed to them, after the company's losses had forced its closure.[1]

Yuile married Margaret King in June 1878 in Montreal. The Yuile brothers set to work restoring the St Johns Glass Company of Saint-Jean to operation, and it resumed manufacturing in April 1879 under the name

green glass, and the company made prescription bottles, fruit jars, telegraph insulators, and some pressed glass pieces. The brothers also acquired the Foster Brothers Glass Works the same year, and moved its operations to their Montreal factory.[2] The company was reorganised in 1883 to finance further expansion and the hiring of expert European glass blowers. As part of the reorganisation, it was renamed the North American Glass Company. At this point, the company had a capital of $10,000.[1]

David and William Yuile, along with Ralph King, the secretary-treasurer of North American Glass, and King's brother in law John Watt founded the

brass foundry and ironworks.[1]

William Yuile retired in 1903, and the Diamond Glass Company was reorganised to allow further expansion. A new ownership group of previous owners David Yuile and Ralph King, as well as new owners Norman MacLeod Yuile (son of William Yuile), James Watt King (Ralph's brother), George Arthur Grier, and David Alexander Gordon started the new

Baltimore, Maryland, where he had travelled to undergo an operation.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e T. B. King (2000). "Yuile, David". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval.
  2. ^ "Business and History — Dominion Glass Company Limited". University of Western Ontario. 1967. Archived from the original on 2009-11-30.

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