"While he might not have been the largest, he developed the standard and then in 1914, the current Peter Cooper Corporation, a company in Gowanda NY, bought his business and used then the name. At the time, they were producing far more glue than Peter Cooper was but they got the rights and name of Peter Cooper. He developed the standard that stuck, so to say. It still does today.
"The Peter Cooper Corporation purchased and consolidated many of those facilities as far west as San Francisco, Chicago, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Gowanda, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, Boston, and then even into Canada. In Brandfort, Ontario, there was a glue factory that was part of the Peter Cooper Corporation facilities. In fact, the facility in Gowanda was recognized as being the largest glue factory in the world.
"So then the new company became the largest in the world, but it wasn’t a Peter Cooper company; the family was out of it. His family continued to run the operation in NY, which was later then consolidated with the other facilities of the resulting Peter Cooper Corporation. Manufacturing was then discontinued shortly after 1914 in New York and bought to Gowanda. Edith Cooper Bryce still retained 300,000 shares, but not a controlling interest and was eventually bought out. The massive worldwide dominance came after his death, after the company was sold, by consolidating a lot of glue companies.
"This plant is in Gowanda NY. At the time it was the largest facility in the world. It was nearly 1 mi in length, producing hide glue in excess of 30 million lbs per year. Today the plant no longer exists. This is one of those facilities that was environmentally challenged and it was not economically feasible to treat the waste water and so it was closed eventually in the mid 1970s."
