Hugh Lincoln Cooper

Hugh Lincoln Cooper (April 28, 1865[1] — June 24, 1937[2]) was an American Colonel and renowned civil engineer, known for construction supervision of a number of hydroelectric power plants.

Biography

Born in Houston County in Sheldon, Minnesota, Cooper was a self-educated civil engineer. He worked throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, and Soviet Union. During World War I he served as a supervising engineer in the US Army Corps of Engineers.[3]

Cooper died in Stamford, Connecticut in 1937.[2]

Supervised constructions

Toronto Power Generating Station, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (1906)
Keokuk Dam, Hamilton, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa (1910-1913)
Wilson Dam, Shoals Shore, Alabama (1918-1924)
Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant, Mazeppa, Minnesota (1919)
Dniprohes, Soviet Union (now Zaporizhia, Ukraine) (1927-1932) — upon completion of the project, Hugh Cooper was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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References

"Subjects of Biographies". Dictionary of American Biography. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
Hugh L. Cooper, builder of dam at Shoals, dies. Times Daily – June 25, 1937.
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad

External links

Hugh Lincoln Cooper at the American Society of Civil Engineers website.
M. Bourke-White, Image of Col. Hugh L. Cooper supervising the building of the great dam across the Dineper River. Life Magazine, 1931.
Hugh L. Cooper speaks to MIT civil engineers, January 1915.
H. Dorn (1979). "Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Détente". Technology and Culture. 20 (2): 322–347. doi:10.2307/3103869.

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[1] "Subjects of Biographies". Dictionary of American Biography. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.

[death-2] Hugh L. Cooper, builder of dam at Shoals, dies. Times Daily – June 25, 1937.

[3] Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad