OBITUARY. 
851 
OBITUARY. 
RUSH SHIPPEN HUIDEKOPER, M. D., VET. 
(AEFORT.) 
This well-known veterinarian died at the Presbyterian Hos¬ 
pital, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 18, at 6.30 a. m., after an illness 
of nearly two months, pneumonia being assigned as the imme¬ 
diate cause of death, though he had been suffering from a com¬ 
plication of diseases. 
The deceased was born at Meadville, Pa., May 3, 1854, and 
was educated at the Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and the 
University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with the 
degree of M. D. in 1877. Dr. Huidekoper’s grandfather was 
Harm Jan Huidekoper, who came to this country from Hol¬ 
land in 1796, and settled in Meadville, where he organized a 
Unitarian Church and founded a theological school. Edgar 
Huidekoper was the father of our deceased colleague, and he 
was a writer of note upon theological subjects, while his mother 
was a daughter of Judge Henry Shippen. He is survived by 
his widow, who was Miss Anne Preston Morris, of Media, and 
by his brothers, General H. S. Huidekoper, of Philadelphia ; F. 
W. Huidekoper, of Washington, D. C., and his sisters, Mrs. 
Frank Wells and Mrs. H. P. Kidder, of Boston. 
After graduating from the medical department of the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, he became coroner’s physician for a 
short time, and was with the National Guard for twelve years, 
rising to the rank of division surgeon in 1892, when he re¬ 
moved to New York City and severed his connection with it. 
With the exception of the time he served as coroner’s physi¬ 
cian, assistant surgeon to the University Hospital, and on the 
staff of the Philadelphia Dispensary and Children’s Hospital, it 
is not known that Dr. Huidekoper practiced human medicine, 
his fondness for animals giving him a decided preference for 
veterinary medicine. With the object of attaining a thorough 
veterinary education he entered the National Veterinary School 
at Alfort, France, where he graduated about the year 1881. 
Desiring to place himself in the very front rank of his new pro¬ 
fession, he sought the famous laboratories for the study of bac¬ 
teriology, then just dawning upon the medical world, and suc¬ 
cessively studied under Virchow, Koch, Chauveau, and Pasteur. 
When he returned to America, discarding the offer of a pro¬ 
fessorship from Harvard Universisy, he set vigorously to work 
