History
Kellogg, Clarke & Co was formed in 1869 by Thomas C. Clarke and Charles Kellogg, with the backing of Samuel Reeves of the Phoenix Iron works of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. In 1871 Kellogg left to form his own company and Clarke and Reeves formed Clarke, Reeves & Co. In 1884 Clarke, Reeves & Co. became the Phoenix Bridge Company. In the same year Clarke and Charles Macdonald formed the Union Bridge Company by merger of the Central Bridge Company of Buffalo, New York and Kellogg and Maurice of Athens, Pennsylvania.
The Union Bridge Company was purchased by the American Bridge Company in a 1900 consolidation of 24 US bridge building companies.
A company with the same name, chartered in 1873, was involved in a US Supreme Court case in 1907 involving compliance with a law giving the Secretary of War the authority to order removal of obstructions to navigation on rivers and waterways. It is not yet clear if this is the same company or not.
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