Lauth's Cemetery
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Lauth's Cemetery

Also known as Saint Bernards Catholic Cemetery

Howard, Centre County, Pennsylvania, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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Bernard Lauth was born in Alsace, Germany, one of seven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1831 and married Elizabeth Wilhelm in 1840. He rose through the ranks of the steel industry in the Pittsburgh area, become an Iron Master and Rolling-Mill inventor. He was a partner of the Jones and Lauth steel mills which later became Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. After selling his Pittsburgh business, he moved to England and Europe for four years. Returning to this country, he first built a steel mill in Reading, PA; then in September of 1871, he moved to Howard where he renewed the dilapidated ironworks. He built new houses for the workers and a new rolling mill. In 1882, he erected a beautiful Catholic Chapel on the hill where gradually a cemetery grew in the churchyard. In 1912, the chapel was damaged by fire but was rebuilt. However, with the decline of the iron industry in this area, the chapel was not rebuilt when it burned again at a later date. All valuables of a religious nature had been removed from the chapel by the property church authorities before the second fire. There are no remains of the church left. The cemetery is mowed and in good condition.

Source: Linn, John Blair, "History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania" L. H. Everts, 1883

Bernard Lauth was born in Alsace, Germany, one of seven children. He emigrated to the United States in 1831 and married Elizabeth Wilhelm in 1840. He rose through the ranks of the steel industry in the Pittsburgh area, become an Iron Master and Rolling-Mill inventor. He was a partner of the Jones and Lauth steel mills which later became Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. After selling his Pittsburgh business, he moved to England and Europe for four years. Returning to this country, he first built a steel mill in Reading, PA; then in September of 1871, he moved to Howard where he renewed the dilapidated ironworks. He built new houses for the workers and a new rolling mill. In 1882, he erected a beautiful Catholic Chapel on the hill where gradually a cemetery grew in the churchyard. In 1912, the chapel was damaged by fire but was rebuilt. However, with the decline of the iron industry in this area, the chapel was not rebuilt when it burned again at a later date. All valuables of a religious nature had been removed from the chapel by the property church authorities before the second fire. There are no remains of the church left. The cemetery is mowed and in good condition.

Source: Linn, John Blair, "History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania" L. H. Everts, 1883

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