HUIDEKOPER, FREDERIC: Unitarian; b. at
Meadville, Pa., Apr. 7, 1817; d. there May 10, 1892.
He studied at Harvard for a year (1834-35), but
was forced by failing sight to cease his studies.
From 1839 to 1841 he traveled in Europe, and after
his return studied theology privately for two years.
In 1844 he aided in the organization of Meadville
Theological School, in which he had charge of the
New Testament department for five years (1844-49),
and where he was professor of church history from
1845 to 1877, being also librarian and treasurer for
many years. From 1877 until his death he lived
in retirement at Meadville, and in the latter years
of his life was totally blind. Besides editing the
Acts of Pilate
(Cambridge, Mass., 1881), he wrote
Belief of the first Three Centuries Concerning Christ's
Mission to the Underworld
(Boston, 1854);
Judaism
at Rome B.C. 76 to A.D. 140
(New York, 1876); and
Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of
the Gospels
(1878).
HULBERT, ERI BAKER: Baptist; b. at Chicago
July 16, 1841; d. there Feb. 17, 1907. He was
educated at Madison University, Union College
(B.A., 1863), Hamilton Theological Seminary (M.A.,
1865), and the University of Gottingen. He held
pastorates at Manchester, Vt. (1865-68), Coventry
Street, Chicago (1868-89), the First Baptist Church
of St. Paul, Minn. (1869-71), and San Francisco
(1871-76), and the Fourth Baptist Church, Chicago
(1876,82). From 1882 to 1892 he was professor
of church history in Baptist Union Theological Seminary, Chicago, and was professor of the same subject and dean of the divinity school of the University of Chicago (1892-1907). He was also acting
president of Baptist Union Theological Seminary
in 1884-85.
