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Article: Eponymous company patriarch Berkman reaches 100
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- January 16, 2009
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About 85 years ago, a young kid named Louis Berkman dropped out
of school so he could drive his father's horse-drawn wagon and
peddle junk in his home town of Steubenville, Ohio.
On Thursday, Berkman, who went from street peddler to head one of
Pittsburgh's oldest and most successful companies, Ampco-Pittsburgh
Corp., turned 100 years old.
Like he has for decades, Berkman yesterday was at his desk at his
office in the Steubenville headquarters of the Louis Berkman Co.
Privately held, the Berkman Co. holds stakes in a number of
companies, including nearly 16 percent of Ampco-Pittsburgh, along
with Swenson Spreader Co., Follansbee Steel and snowplow maker Meyer
Products Co.
"He's in the office ...