Alfred E. Hunt

Alfred E. Hunt

American metallurgist and businessman (1855–1899)

Alfred Ephraim Hunt (1855-1899) was a 19th-century American metallurgist and industrialist best known for founding the company that would eventually become Alcoa, the world's largest producer and distributor of aluminum.2

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Born Mar 31, 1855, died Apr 27, 1899.1

Companies

Early life and education

Hunt was a New Englander by birth. His parents were Mary Hanchett Hunt (1830–1906) and Leander B. Hunt (1812–1886). He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1876 with a degree in metallurgy and mining. His first several jobs kept him in New England, first in Boston with the Bay State Ironworks, which was operating the first open hearth steel furnace in the United States. From there, he went on to Nashua, New Hampshire, to work for the Nashua Iron & Steel Company.

His career eventually took him to Pittsburgh, doing metallurgical work for the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, which he would acquire in partnership with the young chemist George Hubbard Clapp in 1887. He was working there in 1888 when his acquaintance Romaine C. Cole brought a young man three years out of Oberlin College to meet him.

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Career

Occupation: metallurgist, businessperson, inventor.4

  • Date not recordedFounded Alcoa3

Personal life

  • BornMar 31, 1855, East Douglas5 6
  • CitizenshipUnited States7

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