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Walter Hull Aldridge
Born(1867-09-08)September 8, 1867
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
Occupation
  • Mining engineer
EmployerTexas Gulf Sulphur Company
AwardsJohn Fritz Medal (1949)
William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal (1933)

Walter Hull Aldridge (September 8, 1867 โ€“ August 8, 1959) was an American mining and metallurgical engineer. He was a recipient of the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal and the John Fritz Medal.[1][2]

Biography

Aldridge was born in

Columbia School of Mines, graduating in 1887 as an Engineer of Mines.[1][3] He was a member of the Tau Beta Pi honor society.[4]

After graduating from Columbia, Aldridge became an assayer for the Colorado Smelting Company and became a chemist and metallurgist for the company. In 1892, he became manager of the United Smelting & Refining Company. After the takeover of the company by the

Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada.[1][5] As managing director of the company, he established lead and copper works at Trail, British Columbia, built the world's first electrolytic lead refinery, and developed the Hosmer and Bankhead coal mines.[1][6] Under his watch, gold and silver were melted, smelted, and refined for the first time in Canada.[7]

Aldridge then became associated with William B. Thompson of the Gunn-Thompson Company, overseeing Thompson's extensive milling interests. He was a director of

The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Hosmer Mines Company, Bankhead Mines Company, and the High River Wheat & Cattle Company.[1]

Aldridge became President of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company,[8] succeeding Seeley G. Mudd, who resigned from the presidency to enter military service.[9] He served as president until July 1951, and retired at the age of 83. Aldridge remained chairman of the company.[9][10] He transformed the company into the world's largest producer of sulpher and the largest source of the cheap, pure sulphur.[11]

Aldridge received a William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal for distinguished achievement in mining in 1933.[12] He received a John Fritz Medal in 1949, cited as "as engineer of mines and statesman of industry who by his rare technical and administrative skills has importantly augmented the mineral production of [the United States] and Canada."[13]

Aldridge died on August 8, 1959.[9] He lived at 740 Park Avenue and Scarsdale, New York.[14][15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Walter Hull Aldridge | The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers". aimehq.org. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  2. ^ Board, John Fritz Medal (1950). John Fritz Medal: Biography of Walter Hull Aldridge, Medalist for 1950.
  3. ^ N.Y.), Columbia College (New York (1888). Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College, for the Year ... D. Van Nostrand.
  4. ^ "Business Leaders". www.tbp.org. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  5. ^ "Trail Operations at 100". Canadian Mining Journal. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  6. ^ "Trail Blazers: Pioneers and their pampered pooches". Trail Daily Times. 2022-04-17. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  7. ^ Weygant, Charles H. (1913-01-01). The Hull family in America. Dalcassian Publishing Company.
  8. ISSN 0362-4331
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    ISBN 978-1-895198-37-9
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  10. JSTOR 1679394
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  11. ISSN 0040-781X
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  12. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  13. ISSN 0009-2347
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  14. ^ "740 Park". Michael Gross. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  15. ^ "Scarsdale Inquirer 27 March 1942 โ€” HRVH Historical Newspapers". news.hrvh.org. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
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