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...James W. Corrigan, 47, genuinely liked for his openhandedness, his exuberance, his loyalty to friends and his able management of the Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., went two weeks ago to a game of bowls at the Cleveland Athletic Club. At the club building he grasped a bronze door handle, staggered, dropped to one knee, pulled himself upright. Half inside the door he collapsed. The heavy door slammed upon him-dead of heart failure...
Many years ago the late Captain James C. Corrigan bought vast iron ore fields in the Lake Superior district. The late Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller and the late William Rockefeller, was his partner. John D. Rockefeller loaned them money, taking a mortgage on the ore lands. He foreclosed the mortgage for needs of his own and later sold the minerals to the U. S. Steel Corp., prof iting greatly. Captain Corrigan was wrecked financially. Frank Rockefeller nourished an antagonism toward his brother John...
...Captain Corrigan then formed a partnership with the late Judge Stevenson Burke of Cleveland to make steel. They prospered, but in 1900 tragedy overtook Corrigan when his yacht Idler sank in Lake Erie, and Mrs. Corrigan, three daughters and a grandchild were drowned...
...Corrigan employes was Price McKinney, energetic bookkeeper. He was trusted and deserved the trust. At the beginning of the century he became a partner and the firm name became Corrigan-McKinney. When "Young Jim," prancing rich man's son, tripped into scrapes, the partners rescued him and up braided him. Captain James C. Corrigan died in 1908, having named Price Mc Kinney trustee of his estate. To his son he left only $15,000 unrestricted. Millions were in trust. The young man (he was 29 then) continued playing richly about, was sued for "breach of promise" by a Pittsburgh...
...pointed out that the only constitutional ground which Madams Corrigan and Curtis had for maintaining that the property owners' agreement was invalid, was that it was contrary to the Fifth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments...