The Laughlin brothers, with the unusual literary names Homer and Shakespeare, opened the Laughlin Brothers Pottery in East Liverpool, Ohio, in 1873. Shakespeare later withdrew from the business, and in 1896 the Homer Laughlin China Company was incorporated.
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