Corrigan, McKinney & Company
American mining, shipping, and steel company, 1894 to 1935
Corrigan, McKinney & Co. was an iron ore wholesaler, iron mine owner and operator, and pig iron producer based in Cleveland, Ohio. Its majority stockholder was founder James C. Corrigan, and the silent partner was Cleveland railroad magnate Stevenson Burke. It emerged in March 1894 after the bankruptcy of Corrigan, Ives & Co., with Burke's son-in-law, Price McKinney, becoming the second largest stockholder. Gogebic, Marquette, Mesabi, Menominee iron ranges in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, where for many years it was second only to U.S. Steel in terms of annual tonnage mined. It owned pig iron smelters in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as limestone quarries and coal fields in New York and Pennsylvania.
The company went into shipping business in 1896 and owned one of the most influential iron ore shipping fleets on the Great Lakes. It formed a subsidiary, Corrigan, McKinney Steel (later known as McKinney Steel before reverting to its original name), in 1907. Its four blast furnaces, steel furnaces, coking operation, rolling mills, and finishing mills on the Cuyahoga River were the largest in Cleveland and some of the most efficient in the United States.
In 1919, Corrigan, McKinney & Co.
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