Frederick Carder began his glassmaking career with Stevens & Williams in 1881, where he helped re-introduce colored glass.
In 1902, Carder was asked to compile a survey of current glassmaking techniques in other countries, including the United States.
After 20 years of glass design and glassmaking experience, disagreements developed within Stevens & Williams.
page 71 "History of the Corning Painted Post Area : 200 Years in Painted Post Country" (revised edition published in 1991) by Thomas P. Dimitroff and Lois S. Janes has the name of Thomas G. Hawkes who was a founder of the Steuben Glass Works with Frederick Carder.
In 1932, Steuben Glass Works reorganized under a new team headed by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., John Gates, and Sidney Waugh.
During this period, he experimented with glass casting using the cire perdue (lost wax) method used in metal foundries.
In 2005 Steuben Gallery, in Manhattan, mounted an exhibition of Carder's work that was curated by Donald Albrecht.
The exhibition, called Frederick Carder: Glass, Passion, Invention, was designed by Pure+Applied.