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Buckeye Steel Castings was a Columbus, Ohio steelmaker best known today for its longtime president, Samuel P. Bush, who was the grandfather of President George H. W. Bush and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush. Buckeye, named for the Ohio Buckeye tree, was founded in Columbus as the Murray-Hayden Foundry, which made iron farm
A museum to commemorate the community's declining steel industry was first proposed by Ohio State Senator Harry Meshel in 1977, and a planning office was opened in downtown Youngstown the following year. [1] In 1983, $3 million in state funding was approved for the project. A groundbreaking ceremony was held in 1986. Construction began in 1989 ...
In the steel industry, Samuel P. Bush presided over the Buckeye Steel Castings Company. Columbus was also a popular location for labor organizations. In 1886, Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor in Druid's Hall on S. Fourth Street, and in 1890 the United Mine Workers of America was founded at old City Hall. [26]
In 1891 he built the Wyandotte Building, which was the first steel-frame skyscraper built in the city of Columbus, and which he sold in 1916 to the State of Ohio. As trustee of the Deshler estate he built the Deshler Hotel , for which his grandfather (David Deshler) acquired the land one hundred years prior for $1000, his father (William Green ...
Samuel Prescott Bush, H.W. Bush’s grandfather, controlled the Buckeye Steel Castings Company, which was considered “the largest steel foundry in the world” under his watch.
Youngstown is the site of several steel and metalworking operations, though not to the extent of the past. The largest industrial employers within the city limits are Vallourec Star Steel Company, in the Brier Hill district, and Trivium Packaging. [94] Steelite, a British ceramics manufacturer, has its U.S. headquarters based in Youngstown. [95]
U.S. STEEL HISTORY. U.S. Steel has been a symbol of industrialization since it was founded in 1901 by J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and others, and the domestic steel industry dominated globally ...
Due, in large part, to a groundswell of local support to keep the Mather in Cleveland, the Harbor Heritage Society was created to negotiate a new lease agreement with the city. Incorporated in June 1995, Harbor Heritage formally acquired SS William G. Mather on July 22, 1995, and in 1996 continued to oversee William G. Mather ' s ongoing ...