Talk:Crouse-Hinds Company

Leadership

Reference to David Neal Keller's 1983 150th anniversary history of Cooper Industries,past editions of Moody's Manuals,Findagrave.com (particularly Oakwood Cemetery),newspapers.com(Syracuse Post-Standard),40th and 50th anniversary employee rosters preserved at Rootsweb,and the University of Rochester library Mergent Annual Reports collection among other sources allow one to piece together the following history of Crouse-Hinds leadership:

• Huntington Beard Crouse Sr.,the founder,headed the company as president until his death in 1943,survived by his son Huntington B. Jr. (see below) and daughter Dorothy Crouse Witherill(1902-1998).Into the 1960s Moody's Manual identified "Dorothy Crouse Witherill and First Trust & Deposit Company" as owners of a large block of shares hovering close under or even over 40% of the company,without breakdown between them.First Trust & Deposit and successors First Commercial Banks and Key Banks (now KeyCorp) had longtime representation on the board.

• William Lawyer Hinds (1874-1965),nephew of Jesse Hinds,joined the company in 1903 and was on the board from 1908 until his death.He succeeded Crouse as president and then in 1947 was elected chairman of the board with effect from early 1948.He retired as chairman effective July 26th 1955.

• Huntington Beard Crouse Jr. (1911-1951) (Princeton class of 1933) joined the company in 1935 on dropping out of Harvard Law School.He became vice president on his father's death and succeeded W.L. Hinds as president in March 1948.

On May 13th 1951 he and his terminally and painfully ill wife Esther (who had turned 38 a month before) died by murder-suicide. Their children Lisa and Huntington B. III were taken to California to live with first cousin Liston Witherill.

• Albert F. Hills (1879-1969) who joined the company as a salesman in 1901 and soon became sales manager was president from 1951 until July 26th 1955 and a director and consultant until his death.

• John R. Tuttle (1890-1976) (Yale class of 1913) joined the company in 1933 and simultaneously succeeded W.L. Hinds as chairman and Hills as president.

He relinquished the presidency in 1958 and left the board under a new mandatory retirement age in 1971.

• Robert J. Sloan Jr. (1902-1964) joined the company in 1923 and succeeded chairman Tuttle as president in 1958.

In October 1964 he suffered a heart attack at his desk and died the next day.

• In April 1965 Chris J. Witting (1915-2005) joined the company as president and chief executive officer (first formal use of the CEO title at Crouse Hinds that I'm aware of).He was hired away from being vice president and the executive assistant to CEO Harold Geneen at ITT,after heading broadcasting at Westinghouse.

He led the company into the Fortune 500,shifting from president to chairman in 1975 when Paul A. Brunner became president,and when Cooper Industries bought Crouse Hinds became vice chairman of Cooper (retiring from active employement in 1982 and leaving in 1983).

• Cooper named H. John Riley Jr. to succeed Witting in charge of its electrical operations over the heads of more senior executives of Crouse-Hinds where he had led the Distribution Equipment Division.

As Cooper evolved into more and more of an electrical products manufacturer he became its CEO in 1995 and served for a decade.

L.E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2 (talk) 03:33, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

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