It was once the home of Benjamin Franklin Jones, who was one of the founders of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
The Hot Metal Bridge across the Monongahela River was built to connect the blast furnaces on one side of the river with the rolling mills on the other side of the river.
In 1929, the company was taken over by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Roehm at that point became employed by Jones & Laughlin as the assistant manager and, starting in 1938, manager of the company's Detroit warehouse operation.
From 1920 until 1926 he worked in the private sector as Chief of Security for the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
After leaving the PPL, Stryker directed a documentation project at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
He continued his studies on the Standard Oil project, and contributed two photo-essays to the Wharton Annual in 1984 (concerning the Standard Oil photographs) and 1985 (on a later Stryker-led project for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation).
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In 1984, Republic merged into the Jones and Laughlin Steel subsidiary of the LTV Corporation, with the new entity being known as LTV Steel.