Hugh Lincoln Cooper

Quick Facts

Intro

American civil engineer

Places

United States of America

was

Engineer Civil engineer

Work field

Engineering

Gender

Male

Birth

28 April 1865 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Sheldon Township, USA

Star sign

Taurus People who share this birthday

Death

24 June 1937 People who died on this day

Place of death

Stamford, USA

Age

72 years

Awards

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

(1932)

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Hugh Lincoln Cooper (April 28, 1865 — June 24, 1937) 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.

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, 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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