Samuel A. Weller

[1][3] Using a kickwheel, he turned stoneware jars and clay flower pots on a small scale, and sold these utilitarian pieces door-to-door.

[4] One of his earliest designs combined common sewer tiles to make a milk pan, which he marketed successfully locally.

The horse also propelled a grinding machine to prepare clay and pulled a dilapidated wagon carrying finished products to market.

[3] By 1882 Weller moved his pottery to Zanesville, at the foot of Pierce Street along the river, and began creating more decorative wares.

[3] Weller expanded in 1888 with purchase of a wareroom, and again in 1890, buying a tract in the Putnam district, along Pierce Street near the railway, and erecting there a large three-story plant to accommodate his 68 employees.

[3] Long had based his high-gloss brown slip faience glaze on a process Laura A. Fry invented in 1886 at the Rookwood Pottery.

[1] In the second decade of the century, Rudolph Lorber, who worked for Weller Pottery from 1905–1930, molded many profitable lines, including "Roma, Flemish, Zona, Forest, Muskota, Knifewood, and Ting".

[2] He and a local contractor named Bill Adams constructed a theatre in Zanesville that was hailed as "the most renowned in the country" for its acoustics and beautiful interior decorations.

[3] The theatre "was elaborately decorated, including a huge stage drop curtain designed and painted by Cincinnati artist John Rettig.

George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, and Ignace Paderewski all performed in the historic theatre and Broadway plays and operas were also presented.