Thomas Hawkes

Thomas G. Hawkes was born in Surmounet, Ireland, studied engineering at Queens College, Corta. At age 17 he left school and came to New York. He obtained a job as draftman with Hoare and Dailey, a cutting shop in Brooklyn where he learned glass cutting. In 1870 he supervised a branch shop of Corning Glass Works. T.G. Hawkes and Co. is a glass works established in 1880 at Corning, New York, at which decoration was done by cutting and engraving, using blanks supplied by Corning Glass Works and other glass factories. In 1903, Thomas G. Hawkes joined with Frederick Carder to establish the Steuben Glass Works.