Ebenezer Whitney was shipwrecked off Cape May in 1806. He was so seriously injured that he was sent to Philadelphia by stagecoach for medical care. There he married and had three sons, Thomas H., Samuel and Eben. These three brothers, (descendants of the Heston family) ran the Heston-Carpenter glassworks, later took it over and renamed it the Whitney Brothers Glassworks leading the glass industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Whitney glass work's venture was succeeded by the Olive Works, the Harmony Glass Works, the Temperanceville Glass Works, Owens Bottle-Machine Co. and Owens-Illinois Glass Company. This last company still exists, although its products today are metal closures for bottles and jars rather than sand-based glass.

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