[2] He went on to become a general supervisor at Cambria, rising through the ranks to finally become the head of Replogle Steel Co.

[1] During World War I, he directed the steel supply for the War Industries Board,[3] organizing the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Chester with William Sproul, Samuel Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, T. Coleman du Pont, and Edward V. Babcock of Pittsburgh.

While in Paris in 1931 he and a friend, Paulding Fosdick, invented a form of the game bridge, which they called Towie.

In 1935, he sought to make Towie a popular game in the United States, with limited success.

[dubious – discuss] J. Leonard Replogle died at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York on November 25, 1948.