# Buckeye Steel Castings Buckeye Steel Castings was a Columbus, Ohio manufacturer of railcar couplers and steel components, and the **original industrial base of the [[Bush Family]] fortune**. Under president [[Samuel P. Bush]] in the early twentieth century it grew into a major railroad supplier with ties to the Rockefeller and Harriman business networks. It is the first link in the dynasty's wealth chain — industrial steel money that the next generation converted into Wall Street finance and then political office. > Stub — expand with corporate history, the Rockefeller/Harriman ties, and Samuel P. Bush's tenure. ## See Also - [[Bush Family]] - [[Samuel P. Bush]]