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cated a higher plane of work ; in the field of association work 
he strove always to make loftier its aims and purposes; in his 
masterful leadership for recognition and rank of his profession 
he never forgot, in the battles he waged, the higher purposes to 
be obtained for the true growth of his profession. In all of these 
spheres of work as editor, teacher, officer, practitioner, exam¬ 
iner and leader he gave lavishly of his time, liberally of his 
means, and spent unselfishly of his wonderful energy and indom¬ 
itable courage in making successful, in a remaikable degree, 
these higher ideals that he ever held of what he singled out to 
do. 
Unselfish in all that he did, frank and honest in all his deal¬ 
ing with his fellow-man, unresentful of any blows aimed to do 
him harm, and with the utmost confidence in all whom he met, 
such was the life of Rush Shippen Huidekoper, who has passed 
from our midst too soon. 
DR. THOMAS F. BARRON. 
On November 20 Dr. Thomas F. Barron, of Baltimore, Md., 
died from heart failure, as a result of acute gastritis, in his fifty- 
ninth year. He had been in rather poor health for a few 
months, but his death was not anticipated until a few days be¬ 
fore its occurrence. 
The deceased may be said to have been a pioneer in the pro¬ 
fession, having been in active practice prior to the attainment 
of his majority ; his father (who was a self-made man, there 
being no veterinary colleges in this country in his day) having 
been a skillful practitioner, and amassed quite a comfortable for¬ 
tune from it. His son, the subject of this sketch, succeeded to his 
father’s large business, and was even more successful than his 
sire. He was a student of the best professional literature, and 
possessed a well-chosen library of standard text-books and con¬ 
temporaneous works. 
He was a member of the Maryland State Veterinary Medical 
Society from its earliest days, and was also a member of the 
American Veterinary Medical Association, having joined it in 
1887, and regularly attended its meetings when possible. 
At a meeting of the Maryland State Veterinary Medical So¬ 
ciety, held on Thursday, December 5, 1901, the following 
minute was adopted : 
Inasmuch as Divine Providence has removed from our midst our late 
associate, Dr. Thomas F. Barron, one of the pioneers of the veterinary 
profession in Maryland, we desire to record the deep sense of our loss of 
