Benjamin Franklin Jones (industrialist)

{{distinguish|Benjamin Franklin Jones (New Jersey politician)}}

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{{short description|American industrialist (1824–1903)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Benjamin Jones

|image = BenjaminFJones.jpg

|office = Chair of the Republican National Committee

|term_start = June 6, 1884

|term_end = July 12, 1888

|predecessor = Dwight M. Sabin

|successor = Matt Quay

|birth_name = Benjamin Franklin Jones, Sr.

|birth_date = {{birth date|1824|8|8}}

|birth_place = Claysville, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1903|5|19|1824|8|8}}

|death_place = Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|party = Republican

|spouse = Mary McMasters

|children = 1

|signature = Signature of Benjamin Franklin Jones (1824–1903).png

}}

Benjamin Franklin Jones (August 8, 1824 – May 19, 1903) was a pioneer of the iron and steel industry in Pittsburgh, United States.{{cite journal |title=Family's Fourth |journal=Time |issue=April 13 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756010-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025100728/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756010-2,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |access-date=2008-08-09 | date=April 13, 1936}} Originally involved in the river barge industry, he purchased a share in American Iron Works in 1851, along with Bernard Lauth.{{cite book |editor1-first= James Moore |editor1-last= Swank |editor1-link= James Moore Swank |others= American Iron and Steel Association |title= Statistics of the American and foreign iron trades for 1902. Annual statistical report of the American Iron and Steel Association.

|year= 1902 |publisher= Allen, Lane & Scott |location= Philadelphia |oclc= 7450172 |pages= 9–10 |chapter= Death of Hon. B.F. Jones |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Y46BAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bernard+Lauth%22+American+Iron&pg=RA6-PA9}} 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 donated by his daughter.