Benjamin Franklin Jones (industrialist)
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Benjamin Franklin Jones (industrialist)
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Benjamin Franklin Jones was a pioneer of the iron and steel industry in Pittsburgh, United States. Originally involved in the river barge industry, he purchased a share in American Iron Works in 1851, along with Bernard Lauth. He later joined with James H. Laughlin to form Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, a steel mill heavily dependent on river transportation. The B.F. Jones Memorial Library in Aliquippa Pennsylvania, the site of J&L Steel's Aliquippa Works, was built in his honor with funds do
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American industrialist (1824–1903)
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2023-12-03T21:09:46Z
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