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Elon Huntington Hooker (December 23, 1869 – May 10, 1938) was the founder of Hooker Electrochemical Company. Biography. From a New England family, Elon Hooker obtained degrees in civil engineering from the University of Rochester and Cornell University. In 1912, he was named treasurer of the Progressive Party. In 1920, he ...
Hooker was the founder of one of the first electrochemical plants in the U.S. at Niagara Falls, N.Y. - a major producer of chemicals and plastics. He was ranked as one of the leading American figures in the field of chemical production.
The chief architect of Niagara’s chemical expansion was Elon Huntington Hooker, an engineer turned industrial titan who settled in the Falls soon after William Love left. [ Fig. 6 ] Hailing from famous families, Hooker was destined for great things.
Founded in 1903 as "the Development and Funding Company" by Elon Huntington Hooker, of Rochester, NY, the company used the Townsend cell to electrolyse salt into chlorine and sodium hydroxide (NaOH), also known as "caustic soda" and "lye," in a chloralkali process.
Elon Huntington Hooker. Birth. 23 Nov 1869. Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA. Death. 10 May 1938 (aged 68) Los Angeles County, California, USA. Burial.
Stricken by a heart attack, Elon Huntington Hooker, father of Mrs. John D.-Rockefeller 3d, died today in his bungalow at the Hotel Huntington, at the age of 69 years.
As the daughter of Blanche Ferry and Elon Huntington Hooker, she came from extraordinary affluence. Her mother’s family owned the Ferry Morse Seed Company in Detroit, while her father was president of the Hooker Electro-Chemical Company. This inherited fortune, combined with the […]
