| Show BENJAMIN F JONCS JONES HEAD OF STEEL COMPANY DEAD SP i eik I 1 51 J ov 1 V aja I 1 1 af 1 benjamin franklin jones head of 0 the jones Laugh laughlina lins steel company of pittsburg PUts burg the largest independent concern of its kind in america and formerly chairman ot of the republican national committee died suddenly at his home in allegheny mr jones was born in washington county pennsylvania on aug 8 1824 and was educated in new brighton until he was 19 when he settled in the then busy city of pittsburg and took service at no salary at all at first as a shipping clerk with the meehan leg line which ran between pitts burg and philadelphia by canal and rail with samuel at kler kier the dent ot of the line who took an interest in the young clerk mr jones branched out as a developer of 0 trans por tation and before he was 25 he was president of two lines of boats and had already begun to lay the foundation of the iron and steel bus bust ness which was eventually to become so large in 1852 mr jones jone s dished the american iron works in pittsburg under the firm name of jones lauth co and in 1854 took into partnership james laughlin Laughl ln on the retirement of mr lauth mr jones had been a strong lican and had a large share in shap ng the policy of the republican party in 1884 he was the pennsylvania mem her of the republican national corn com cittee and was subsequently its chair man |
