Unlikely to forget the Johnstown Flood of 1889 is Jacob Leonard Replogle, potent retired U. S. steelmaker. The direct result of the flood upon 13-year-old Master Replogle was that he was carried several miles downstream, clinging to the onetime roof of his onetime home. The indirect result was that, his family penniless, he entered the steel industry as an office boy for Cambria Steel. Rapidly he climbed, his invention of a thread-rolling machine giving him additional impetus. In 1916, a director and member of the executive committee, he was instrumental in selling Cambria's...
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