Civil Engineer
Centurion, 1907–1938
Born 23 December 1869 in Rochester, New York
Died 10 May 1938 in Pasadena, California
Buried Mount Hope Cemetery
, Rochester, New York
Proposed by Thomas J. Long and William H. Boardman
Elected 1 June 1907 at age thirty-seven
Archivist’s Note: Father-in-law of John P. Marquand and of John Davison Rockefeller 3d
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Century Memorial
Trained as an engineer and devoting his talents to the direction of large-scale industry with high success, Elon Huntington Hooker had yet another major interest. He could never forget an early concern for public affairs and maintained to the end a lively contact with politics and its practitioners. In his younger days the spell of Theodore Roosevelt led him to accept responsibility for the New York State canal system. Later, in 1912, he served as national treasurer for the Bull Moose party. Thenceforward, the fortunes of the progressive wing of the Republican party recurringly brought him into touch with public life. But it was, of course, to his electrochemical enterprises at Niagara Falls that he devoted the core of his effort and abilities. He was thrice president of the Manufacturing Chemists Association of the United States. He served as trustee of the University of Rochester. A source of pride to him was his direct descent from Thomas Hooker, founder at Hartford in 1638 of the Colony of Connecticut. Centurions recall especially his zest for golf, which made him a spirited combatant in all the Club’s tournaments.
Geoffrey Parsons
1938 Century Memorials
