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)
• Wilson Dam, Shoals Shore, Alabama (1918-1924)
• Keokuk Dam, Hamilton, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa (1910-1913)
• Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant, Rochester, 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

References

1. "Subjects of Biographies". Dictionary of American Biography. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
2. Hugh L. Cooper, builder of dam at Shoals, dies. Times Daily – June 25, 1937.
3. 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.