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Guide to the Koppers Company, Inc. Records 1902-1993
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- Title
- Koppers Company, Inc. records 1902-1988
- Subject
- Rust, H. B, Mellon, Andrew, 1855-1937, DuPont, Irénée, 1876-1963, Eaton, Cyrus, 1883-1979, Koppers, Heinrich, 1872-1941, Rust family, Brown family, Koppers Company, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Chicago By-Product Coke Company (Chicago, Il.), Minnesota By-Product Coke Co. (St. Paul, Mn.), Koppers Company, Inc. Seaboard Plant (Kearny, NJ), Brooklyn Union Coke Gas Company (New York, NY), Connecticut Coke Company (New Haven, Ct.), Koppers Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Allegheny Country Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 11th Street Power Plant (Pittsburgh Pa.), Chemical industry--United States, Coal--United States, Coke industry--United States, Coke industry and trade--United States, Gas industry--United States, Research, industrial--United States, Coke-ovens--United States
- Description
- The Koppers Company, Inc. Records are comprised of administrative records, research and development materials, manuals, patents (1902-1935), financial records, public relations and product catalogs, and photographs that document the evolution of Koppers’ business functions. The Koppers Company, Inc. Records are housed in 25 boxes and arranged into four series: Administrative Records, Financial Records, Photographs, and Oversized Material., Koppers Company, Inc. records, 1902-1993, MSS 990, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, This collection has been made accessible as part of NHPRC-funded Basic Processing and Documenting Democracy grants., Fitzhugh Brown Gift 1998; 2001; 2003 1998.0002; 2001.0153; 2003.0028, Fitzhugh Brown and George Tannehill Gift 1999 1999.0010, Hatch Associates Consultants, Inc. Gift 2012 2012.0074, The roots of Koppers Company, Inc. can be traced to German engineer, Heinrich Koppers, and his innovations in the coke production industry. In his work in the coke industry, Koppers had invented a chemical-recovery coke oven that greatly increased the quality of coke output while also augmenting heating efficiency and economy. In addition, Koppers’ process stimulated recovery of coal gases, tar, and other chemicals. Upon meeting with representatives from the United States Steel Corporation (US Steel) in 1907, Koppers agreed to build a coke plant in the United States. The H. Koppers Company was incorporated five years later in 1912, with company headquarters in Chicago, Il. After managing his company remotely from Essen, Germany for two years, Koppers sold his controlling stake in the company to a group of investors including Andrew Mellon and H. B. Rust. At this point, the company’s headquarters were transferred from Chicago to Pittsburgh, Pa. With this transition, H. B. Rust was elected president and CEO of Koppers, a title he would have until his retirement in 1933. Following Rust’s retirement, leadership of Koppers was placed in the following men: J. P. Tierney (1933-1944), General Brehon B. Somervell (1946-1955), Fred C. Foy, (1955-1960), Fletcher L. Byrom (1960-1968), Douglas Grymes (1968-1986), and Glen Tenley (1986-1988)., Gift of Fitzhugh Brown., Gift of Fitzhugh Brown and George Tannehill., Gift of Hatch Associates Consultants, Inc., Processed MSS 990 09/12/2013 S. Green, Processed MSS 990 2015 N. Hartley, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Koppers Company, Inc, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1902-1988
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 15.5 linear feet
- Identifier
- oclc:958498238, pitt:US-QQS-mss990
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss990
- Coverage
- United States, United States, United States, United States, United States, United States, United States
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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