Hugh Lincoln Cooper (April 28, 1865–June 24, 1937Hugh L. Cooper, builder of dam at Shoals, dies. Times Daily – June 25, 1937.) was an American colonel and civil engineer, known for construction supervision of a number of hydroelectric power plants.
Biography
Born in Houston County in Sheldon, Minnesota, Cooper moved to Rushford Minnesota and graduated from Rushford High School. 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.Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Cooper died in Stamford, Connecticut in 1937.
Supervised constructions
Toronto Power Generating Station, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (1906) Keokuk Dam, Hamilton, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa (1910-1913) Wilson Dam, Florence–Muscle Shoals, Alabama (1918-1924) Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant, Mazeppa, Minnesota (1919) Dniprohes, Soviet Union (now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) (1927-1932) — upon completion of the project, Hugh Cooper was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour
References
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.