After I posted an article to this website last week, titled, Some Interesting Facts About the Late 19th and 20th Century Wingender Pottery in Haddonfield, New Jersey, it was said by a small group of people that they were surprised to learn that this business existed during the circa 1890-1945 or so period. This was because some twentieth century publications had stated that the Wingender Pottery ceased production with the death of William Wingender (1862-1915) in 1915.
However, after William died in 1915 and Charles Wingender (1856-ca. 1823) passed away about 1923, the pottery factory continued to operate through family ownership. For instance, William's son, William O. Wingender (1901-1955), who was born in New Jersey in 1901 is first listed as a 19-year-old potter in the 1920 United States Federal Census. He is eventually listed as the proprietor of the Haddonfield company, which was still manufacturing stoneware and red earthenware, as late as 1945.
Interestingly, very little is known about this post-1915 production, although there are some signed ornamental red earthenware urns known today that were owned by the Wingender family until the latter part of the twentieth century. These objects are now privately owned.
But while researching this subject online recently, I learned about a collection of red earthenware and stoneware all made at the various potteries in Haddonfield during the circa 1816-1950 period. These objects are owned today by the Historical Society of Haddonfield, and they include slip-decorated red earthenware reportedly made at the circa 1816-1883 Snowden family pottery, as well as stoneware from the Wingender Pottery, which the museum says operated until 1950. As I suspected, the red earthenware that the museum says was made at the Snowden Pottery appears to be Philadelphia or southeastern Pennsylvania influenced in form and decoration.
According to the historical society, "The collection of redware and stoneware represents pottery production in Haddonfield from the 1816-1950 period."
The original Snowden Pottery family member was Richard Snowden (d. 1868), who trained under John Thompson in Haddonfield; Thompson purchased the property in which he established his pottery on April 30, 1805 from Charles French and John Brick, executors of the estate of Elizabeth Hinchman. After about a decade of existence of the Thompson Pottery, the company was sold a few times before it was acquired by Snowden. However, it is not immediately known where Thompson trained to be a potter, but he may have come from Philadelphia or southeastern Pennsylvania, which was only a few miles away, located on the other side of the Delaware River.
For more information about the potteries that preceded the establishment of the Wingenders business in 1890 - see an article that I posted to this website yesterday, titled, A First-Hand Account Published in 1910 About Production and Some Distribution from the Wingender Pottery in Haddonfield, New Jersey: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2024/05/a-first-hand-account-published-in-1910.html.
Note: The Historical Society of Haddonfield also owns a good amount of paperwork related to the Wingenders, including William and Charles' wills, as well as some original photographic images.
Red Earthenware Reportedly Made at the Snowden Pottery in Haddonfield, N.J.
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