PIONEER ERA POSTCARD - Indianapolis, IN: Kingan & Co - 1892

Description: PIONEER ERA POSTCARD - Indianapolis, IN: Kingan & Co - 1892 - Credit Statement: Kingan and Company, a global meatpacking concern, operated at Maryland and Blackford streets along White River. In 1845, Samuel Kingan, a native of Belfast, opened a meatpacking plant in northern Ireland and began a lucrative trade supplying salt pork to British ships. After his meatpacking plants in Brooklyn and Cincinnati burned, he opened an Indianapolis facility in 1862. Thomas Kingan, Samuel’s brother, was the first manager of the Indianapolis plant. In 1875, Kingan merged with another Belfast, Ireland, firm, J & T Sinclair. Family member W. R. Sinclair came to Indianapolis in 1906 and later directed the American operation for 16 years. By the time of Kingan’s 100th anniversary in 1945, the Indianapolis facility covered 27 acres and employed 3,000 people. It had grown from a small meatpacking plant to one of the 10 largest in the country. Kingan operated additional plants in several states, including Virginia, South Carolina, Iowa, Nebraska, and Florida. In 1952, the Hygrade Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, purchased Kingan. Citing increasing costs and low profits, Hygrade closed the plant in August 1966. A fire destroyed the vacant plant in 1969. This 2" x 5" receipt Pioneer Era postcard, mailed in 1892, is in good condition.

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