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22 DEATH' OF JAMES CORRIGAN. James Corrigan, head of the firm of Corrigan, McKinney & Co., died at his home, 8114 Euclid avenue, Cleve- land, on Dec. 24, of peritonitis. He was stricken with the disease in his country home in Wickliffe last Sep- tember and was critically ill there tor several weeks, but later appeared to be well on the road towards recovery. He suffered a relapse at the city home, however, from which he found it im- possible to rally. 'The history of James Corrigan's life is that of a man who succeeded in bus- iness through the possession of a bold and original mind though denied every advantage of early training and edu- cation. He was born on May I, 1848, at Morrisburg, Ont. His mother died when he was 11 years old, leaving five 'children. His father married again shortly thereafter, and James, with his elder brother, John, finding the home not congenial, left it to make their living together. They went to Os- wego, N. Y., where they made their living sailing on the lakes. John Corrigan later went to Cleve- land and engaged in the oil business. James had meanwhile purchased the little schooner Trial, and, after sail- ing her on the lower lakes, took her to Cleveland with the intention of entering the fruit trade. He, however, abandoned this for the more lucrative business of oil refining. In' 'this business he thrived, winning huge profits, and conducted it as an independent refinery until 1881 when he entered the Standard Oil combina- tion. In the interim, however, he had not suffered his lake interests to lapse, continuing to. add: to; his fleet of vessels as the commerce of the lakes increased. His early investments were in schooners. Among those which he owned were the Niagara, Lucerne, Polynesia, Northwest, J. M. Hutchinson, Halleran, Michigan, Mari- on Page, Charles Foster, Frank D. Owen, Iron Cliff, David Dows, George W. Adams and many others. As the trade grew and schooners became too slow, he added steamers to, his fleet and at one time or another owned the steamers Raleigh, Aurora, Rou- mania, Australasia, Bulgaria, Cale- Conia, italia, J. Emory Owen, St. Paul, M. M. Drake, Quito, Minne- ota, Iron Age, Iron Duke, Iron Chief, Wallace, Australia, Amazon, Polynesia and Aurania. James Corrigan was one of the earliest to recognize the limitless pos- sibilities of the Lake Superior iron country for the creation of wealth Tae MARINE REVIEW and it was a natural step from the carrying of ore to the mining and smelting of it. He became a consist- ent buyer of Lake Superior ore prop- erties and at the time of his death was the most extensive independent operator on the ranges. On the Mesabi range the firm owned the Admiral, Commodore, Jordan, St. over as a doubtful asset. Corrigan, McKinney & Co. acquired it and poured thousands into exploration and development, with the result that in the second year of the new owner- ship the mine produced nearly 1,500,- 000 tons at an average profit for that year of about $1 per ton. His firm's furnace interests em- JAMES CORRIGAN. James, St. Paul, Stevenson and Wal- lace mines; on the Gogebic, the Colby, Colby No, 2, -Irontem, and Ironton No. 2; on the Menominee the Ar- menia, Baker, Basic, Crystal Falls, Dunn, Fairbanks, Genesee, Great Western, Groveland, Kimball, Lamont, Lincoln, Paint River, ©Quinnesec and Tobin; on the Marquette the Star West mine. One illustration alone will suffice to show Mr. Corrigan's daring tem- per aS an opérator. in iron mines. When the steel corporation was formed the Stevenson mine was passed braced the Genesee Furnace Co., at Charlotte, N. Y., the Scottdale Fur- mace ©o.,, at Scottdale, Pa., and the Josephine Furnace & Coke Co., at Josephine, Pa. At Josephine, the firm founded a town as well as a fur- nace. He had also planned to build a new furnace on the Cuyahoga river at Cleveland, under the name of the Riven Furnace & Dock Co. This is expected to" be in operation in 1910. Mr. Corrigan also held extensive cop- per interests in Mexico, Of late years he had gradually abandoned the operation of vessels, the existing fleet