Background
Huidekoper, Rush Shippen was born on May 3, 1854 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edgar and Frances (Shippen) Huidekoper.
Huidekoper, Rush Shippen was born on May 3, 1854 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edgar and Frances (Shippen) Huidekoper.
Educated Philips Academy, Exeter. Graduate medical department University of Pennsylvania, 1877. Veterinarian, National Veterinary School, Republic of France, Alfort, France, 1882, and following year in laboratories of Virchow, Koch, Chauveau and Pasteur.
Physician Philadelphia Dispensary. Out-patient physician Children’s Hospital. Assistant surgeon hospital, University of Pennsylvania.
Coroner’s physician of Philadelphia.
United States commissioner general, Agricultural Exposition, Hamburg, Germany, 1883. Dean veterinary department University of Pennsylvania, and professor internal pathology and contagious diseases, zoötechnics and hygiene, professor comparative anatomy and veterinary surgery, New York College Veterinary Surgery.
Major and aide-de-camp National Guard, Pennsylvania, 1874-1878. Major and brig. surgeon National Guard Pennsylvania, 1878-1891.
Acting assistant quartermaster general National Guard Pennsylvania, 1888 (Johnstown flood).
Late lieutenant colonel and surgeon-in-chief, National Guard Pennsylvania. Lieutenant colonel and chief surgeon United States volumes, 1898. Chief surgeon 1st army corps and chief surgeon Puerto Rico.
Pennsylvania Republican.
Editor: Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives, Philadelphia, since 1889.
Married Anne P. Morris, 1877.