Bernard Lauth

{{short description|American businessman}}

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|birth_date = August 23, 1820

|birth_place=Obersteinbach, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France

|death_date = {{Death-date and age|June 25, 1894|August 23, 1820}}

|death_place = near Howard, Pennsylvania in Centre County

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|known_for = cold rolling

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|occupation = inventor

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|spouse = Elizabeth Wilhelm

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|parents = Bernard Lauth and Catharina Barbara Dauenhauer

|relations = William Laud

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Bernard Lauth (August 23, 1820 in Alsace, France{{cite web |title=Bernard Lauth |url=http://files.usgwarchives.org/pa/centre/bios/lauth-bernard.txt |access-date=2008-08-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719015912/http://files.usgwarchives.org/pa/centre/bios/lauth-bernard.txt |archive-date=2011-07-19 }} – June 25, 1894) founded the American Iron Works in 1850 and formed a partnership with B.F. Jones in 1851.{{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&pg=RA6-PA9 }} In 1854, Lauth retired from the steel firm, selling his partnership to James H. Laughlin, who led the company to be renamed Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.{{cite book|last=Thurston|first=George H.|title=Allegheny county's hundred years|year=1888|publisher=University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library|location=Pittsburgh|page=258|url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00adg8023m;view=toc;c=pitttext}} He invented and patented the process for cold rolling of iron in 1859.[http://www.google.com/patents?id=1MNhAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1 Patent]{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} In 1871, he purchased the iron furnace at Howard, Pennsylvania, where he built a rolling mill in 1882.