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Hugh Cooper


Hugh Lincoln Cooper Col Hugh Lincoln Cooper American engineer builder Dnieiperstoi Dam

Died
  
June 25, 1937, Stamford, Connecticut, United States

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.

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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)
  • 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

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