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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
Samuel Prescott Bush (October 4, 1863 – February 8, 1948) was an American steel industry executive and the patriarch of the Bush family.He was the father of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, the paternal grandfather of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, the patrilineal great-grandfather of former President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Deshler was a director and key early investor in the Buckeye Steel Castings Company, with which he had been identified almost from its incorporation and in the development of which he had been active. He was president and the guiding force of the Central Ohio Natural Gas & Fuel Company, which found the gas in the Lancaster field and piped it to ...
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.
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]
Frank was not as suited to business as his brothers. He invested around $500,000 in mining ventures, which proved unsound, and also invested $250,000 in unfruitful commercial paper. Frank found stability when he invested in the Buckeye Steel Castings Company of Columbus in 1892.
Buckeye leaves grow on buckeye trees, the official state tree of Ohio. The fruit of buckeye trees are — you guessed it — buckeyes, which are small, shiny, dark brown nuts with a light tan patch.
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 ...