The Corrigan Story

Frank "The Chief" Corrigan left the lumber camps of Quebec in 1923 with a dream of earning $5 a day. He moved to Dearborn, Michigan and joined the Ford Motor Company where he worked the Ford farms; sometimes he chauffeured Henry Ford. The Chief was ambitious and when he wasn’t working at Ford, he worked after-hours delivering ice.

When the Depression hit, many folks were economically strapped and forced to move from their homes. The Chief made the most of the opportunity and in 1929, he switched from hauling ice with his three trucks to helping people move.

When Frank's eldest son, Paul Corrigan, returned from the U.S. Air Force in 1946, he found his father ill due to the pressures of running the business and struggling without good help during the war years. Instead of going to college, Paul took over the business.

The Corrigan children have worked all areas of the moving business as drivers, helpers and packers; in departments of accounting, sales, operations, and customer service. Corrigan Moving and Storage grew strong with financial controls and the Corrigans have earned respect in their community as sound business owners and developers.

In 1986 Corrigan purchased an 87,000 square-foot warehouse/office facility in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and moved their corporate offices from Dearborn. In 1999, the newest 108,000-square-foot branch was opened in Novi, Michigan, and became the headquarters of Corrigan Record Storage.

Corrigan has evolved into Corrigan Moving Systems with 12 locations in Michigan and Ohio, 550 employees, 102 full-time owner-operator drivers, and 500,000 square feet of warehouses. Today they generate $50 million in sales revenue.