Background
He was born in Rosteig, a small village in the Alsace region of Northern France on the German border.
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Christian Dorflinger
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When his father died he was apprenticed to a glass manufacturer in Lorraine, but he accompanied his mother when she decided to emigrate to the United States.
Career
He began his own factory in Brooklyn, New York in 1852. The next year he opened the Long Island Flint Glass Works, and in 1860 he opened the Greenpoint Glass Works. He built his largest factory in White Mills, Pennsylvania, where he later died.
