Gregory, Richard A.

After growing up in Johnstown and graduating from Westmont High School in 1954, I became a fifth generation steel worker. I went to work for Bethlehem Steel Company at the age of 19 in the section called Lower Cambria, the site of the original Cambria Iron Company buildings. I worked in the machine shop, next door to the blacksmith building which George King & Dr. Peter Shoenberger built in 1854 even before Daniel Morrell came to Johnstown. Both buildings are still standing. After a long steel strike in 1956 I was called back to work, this time in the tool and die shop of the Franklin Railroad...