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Mr. FREDERIC LOUIS HUIDEKOPER
Mr. REGINALD SHIPPEN HUIDEKOPER

1614 EIGHTEENTH STREET
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Memorial Papers J*
of the Society of •£
Colonial Wars in the
District of Columbia
No. 6, 1910 jtjtjt

By Frederic Louis
Huidekoper Jt Jt -J*

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FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER

Seest thou a man diligent in his business?
he shall stand before kings; he shall
not stand before mean men. Pro<vtrbs, xxii, 29.

Published under the auspices of
THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
December. 1910.

Frederic Wolters Huidekoper

Railway official. Born at "Pomona Hall," Meadville, Pennsylvania, September
12, 1840. Elected to the Society, October 24, 1894. Member of the Committee on
Installation, December 1 9, 1 898, to December 1 9, 1 899. Deputy Governor, December
19, 1899, to December 19, 1900. Governor. December 19, 1900, to December 19,
1901. Member of the Gentlemen of the Council, December 19, 1901, to December
3, 1 907. Died of paralysis, Washington, D. C, April 29, 1 908.
FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER, a scion
of a distinguished Pennsylvania family which consti
tutes the American branch of an ancient family still noted in
Holland,* died at his residence, 1614 Eighteenth Street,
Washington, D. C, on Wednesday, April 29, 1908, at a
quarter past four o'clock in the morning, after an illness of
nearly seven weeks resulting from a stroke of paralysis on
March 13th.
Mr. Huidekoper was born at "Pomona Hall," Meadville,
Pennsylvania, on September 1 2, 1 840. He was the second
son of Edgar and Frances (Shippen) Huidekoper. He was
prepared for college by private tutors, graduated at Harvard
in 1 862 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and received
the degree of Master of Arts in 1871. During 1863 he
served as a Captain in the 58th Regiment of Pennsylvania
*The Huidekoper family is one of the few well-known American families whose
original line exists in Europe to-day and with which close relationship has always been
maintained. The genealogy of the American branch will be found in "The Prominent Families
of the United States of America" by Arthur Meredyth Burke, volume I , pages 74
and 75.
For a description of the arms borne by the Huidekopers, vide Matthews' "American
Armoury and Blue Book," page 59.

4 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
Volunteer Militia, participating in the operations along the
Ohio River which resulted in the capture of the Confederate
raider, General John H. Morgan, whose prisoners he con
ducted to Columbus. As executor of his father's estate, he
spent the fourteen years after his graduation at Harvard,
from 1 862 to 1 877, in closing up the affairs of The Holland
Land Company of Pennsylvania, whose lands in the north
western part of the State had been purchased by his grand
father in 1 836.
Mr. Huidekoper's career in the railroad world is probably
unique for he began as President of a road and never occupied
any position subordinate to that of First Vice-President, in
which case he was vested with absolute power. Together
with other members of the Huidekoper family and with
business friends and associates, he held large investments
in the various railroad companies of the country, particularly
in bonds. After the panic of 1 873 many of these roads
passed into the hands of receivers, so that his interests first
caused him to be connected with various reorganization
committees and subsequently led him into railroad enter
prises. This resulted in his becoming one of the principal
factors in railroad development in many parts of the country.
His first work of the sort was as Chairman of the Reorganiza
tion Committee of the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Rail
road to which, after its rehabilitation, he gave the name of
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, and Mr. Huide
koper was elected its first President in 1877. During the
four years in which he served in that capacity he built, in
conjunction with Mr. J. B. Brown, the Chicago & Western
Indiana Railroadfrom Dalton, Ohio, and Hammond, Indiana,
into Chicago; and in 1881 he also became the President of

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER. 5
the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad. At the end of
1 88 1 , however, he was obliged to resign the presidency of
both roads, owing to ill health brought about by overwork,
and in 1 882 he left Chicago. Notwithstanding the terrible
strikes of 1877, and the almost hopeless condition of the
Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad prior to the time
when he took charge, Mr. Huidekoper succeeded in evolving
order out of chaos, and the policy which he dictated during
his presidency of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
has been continued to the present time and has resulted in
making this road, which is now part of the St. Louis & San
Francisco System, one of the most prosperous of the smaller
lines in the middle west. The results obtained during Mr.
Huidekoper's regime are considered in the railway world to
be among the most remarkable achievements in rehabil
itating a bankrupt company.
Mr. Huidekoper's activities in these railroad organizations
brought him into contact with capitalists who, immediately
recognizing his great ability and sterling integrity, were only
too glad to avail themselves of his services whenever his
health would permit him to take active interest in business
affairs. In November, 1883, Mr. Huidekoper took up his
residence in Washington. In 1 884 he was offered the presi
dency of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which he
declined in order to accept the position as First Vice-Presi
dent of the Richmond & Danville Railroad System (the
present Southern Railway). He was given absolute control,
although it was deemed advisable to retain Colonel A. S.
Buford as the President on account of his being a Southerner.
In 1 885 Mr. Huidekoper also became First Vice-President
of the Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway and

6 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
Warehouse Company, and was made the President of the
Virginia Midland Railway Company. On May 25, 1 886,
he had the entire main line south of Danville, Virginia,
changed in one day from five feet to the standard gauge of
four feet eight and one-half inches — a unique feat in rail
roading — and so admirably was the work organized that
the through trains from New York to New Orleans and
vice versa were delayed only two hours.
In the same year he arranged with the Baldwin Loco
motive Works the first "locomotive trust" ever made in
America, although "car trusts" had previously existed.
The "Congressional Limited" train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, which was first run on January 16, 1886, was
also the result of the suggestion made by Mr. Huidekoper to
Mr. Frank Thompson, then First Vice-President of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
In November and December, 1886, Mr. Huidekoper
resigned from all his positions connected with the Richmond
& Danville System, in consequence of the road's having
passed into other hands, and four months later he became
the President of the Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina Steel
and Iron Company — now the Interstate Coal and Iron
Company — in which he owned large interests. From 1 889
to 1 89 1 he was also President and Chairman of the Reor
ganization Committee, and from 1 889 to 1 893 Receiver, of
the Pittsburgh, Shenango & Lake Erie Railroad, now the
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad. From 1 890 to 1 89 1 he
was the President of the South Atlantic & Ohio Railroad
and built that part of the road which runs from the Clinch
River, through the Natural Tunnel, the mountains and Big
Stone Gap, Virginia, to a junction with the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad.

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER. 7
In the meantime the Richmond & Danville System had
become involved in financial difficulties and, on June 1 5,
1 892, he and Mr. Reuben Foster of Baltimore were made
its Receivers, as well as the Receivers of all its affiliated
lines, comprising the Georgia Pacific, the Charlotte, Col
umbia & Augusta, the Columbia & Greenville and the
Western North Carolina railroads. J. P. Morgan & Com
pany had started a reorganization plan based on the annual
reports of the operations of the Richmond & Danville
System from 1884 to 1892; but, in consequence of informa
tion supplied by Mr. Huidekoper and Mr. Foster, another
plan was formulated, by virtue of which Mr. Samuel Spencer
was made a Co-Receiver as the representative of J. P.
Morgan & Company. Mr. Huidekoper was one of the large
factors in the consolidation of these and many other lines in
what to-day constitutes the great Southern Railway System,
which serves a large part of the country south of the Potomac
River, including most of the leading commercial and manu
facturing cities of the South. To the South the Southern
Railway is what the Pennsylvania Railroad is to Pennsyl
vania, the New York Central to New York and the New
York, New Haven & Hartford is to New England — the
greatest railroad system of the South — and probably to no
man is its prominence and prosperity more due than to Mr.
Huidekoper, one of the master minds in the conception and
execution of the plans which culminated in the formation
of the Southern Railway, as well as the institution of the
policy which, with certain exceptions, is followed by this
system to-day.
In 1 896 Mr. Huidekoper assumed the presidency of the
Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad in order to reorganize

8 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
it, which he succeeded in doing to the satisfaction of the
owners within two years, and then resigned. Shortly before
this time he had become interested, in conjunction with
General Charles Miller, the President of the Galena-Signal
Oil Company, one of the branches of the Standard Oil
Company, in The Disston Land Company of Florida, whose
drainage operations had reclaimed an immense tract com
prising several counties in southern central Florida. Together
the two bought The Disston Land Company, foreclosed it,
and organized The United Land Company, of which he
was the President and half owner from 1901 until his death.
It was not until 1 894 that Mr. Huidekoper was admitted
to the Bar of Pennsylvania, notwithstanding that he had had
an excellent legal training which proved most useful in his
various business enterprises. He never practised the pro
fession actively, however, and never presumed upon his
legal knowledge, although few men, not actually practising
lawyers, have had a more comprehensive and intimate
knowledge of the law in its relation to business. For forty-
four years Mr. Huidekoper was also a Trustee of the Mead
ville Theological School, the leading Unitarian Divinity
School in the United States, which was founded by his
grandfather in 1 844.
Washington is indebted to Mr. Huidekoper for the location
in this city of the main offices of the Richmond & Danville
Railroad — now the Southern Railway. In comparison with
Richmond, the advantages presented by Washington, both
as the northern terminus of the road and as being in more
direct and closer communication with the most important
commercial and financial centres of the country, were so
obvious to him that, in May, 1 886, he purchased the build-

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER. 9
ing situated at the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania
Avenue and Thirteenth Street, and established the principal
offices of the road there. This transfer from Richmond was
not effected without considerable opposition — Governor
Cameron even threatening to compel the return of the offices
within the State of Virginia — but Mr. Huidekoper success
fully overcame this opposition, and time has amply justified
the wisdom of his selection. The centralization of the main
business of such a large railway system in Washington marked
an epoch in the growth of the National Capital. For many
years Mr. Huidekoper had also been identified with the
opening up and improvement of West Washington in which
he owned a large amount of property, and his efforts have
been largely instrumental in securing assistance from Congress
for the development of that section of the city.
While Mr. Huidekoper's name has not figured conspicu
ously in the public prints, and while he did not amass a large
fortune as a result of his connection with some of the great
railroad building and organization projects, nevertheless he
was known in financial circles of New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Boston and Chicago as one of the leading railroad
builders of this nation. He had the confidence to an excep
tional degree of the leading financiers of those and other
cities. When he had examined, with that thoroughness
which was characteristic of all his business activities, into
the affairs of a railroad or into the prospect of a new line in
a new territory, his report thereon was accepted without
the slightest question and the capital necessary to carry out
his plans was always forthcoming. No railroad president
of the last quarter of a century in the United States possessed
to a higher extent the confidence of bankers and investors.

10 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
He was never connected with any organization or reorgani
zation of a railroad company that could not stand the severest
tests, and no one ever heard of any misappropriation of
funds in any project with which he was an influential factor.
To leave the record that he has left is at once the highest
possible tribute to his character and an example to those
who follow him. There would be no ground for the prev
alent complaints against the railroads of the country if they
had all been managed with that scrupulous care and fidelity
that characterized every project with which his name was
connected. Mr. Huidekoper was a member of the Metropolitan,
Country, and Chevy-Chase Clubs of Washington, and of
the University and Harvard Clubs of New York. He was
also a member of the Order of Descendants of Colonial
Governors; of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District
of Columbia — in which he held the offices of Deputy Gov
ernor from 1899 to 1900, and of Governor from 1900 to
1901, and was one of the Gentlemen of the Council from
1 901 to 1 907; and of the District of Columbia Society, Sons
of the Revolution, of which he was the Vice-President from
1904 to 1905, and was three times elected President since
1905. He was likewise a member of the Meade Post of
the Grand Army of the Republic. His widow, two sons,
Frederic Louis Huidekoper and Reginald Shippen Huide
koper, his brothers, Major-General Henry Shippen Huide
koper of Philadelphia and Edgar Huidekoper of Meadville,
and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Wells and Mrs. Henry P. Kidder
of Boston, survive him.
In all relations of life Mr. Huidekoper proved himself of
exceptional usefulness, and won the esteem and admiration

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER. 1 1
of everybody who knew him, even ever so slightly. A man
of unspotted integrity, brilliant in intellect, sound in judgment,
steadfast under the most disadvantageous circumstances, a
natural leader in all he undertook, his whole life was char
acterized by a faithful execution of every task allotted to him
and of every trust committed to his charge. He did great
things with the same simplicity which he devoted to small
things and the smallest details with the same scrupulous
attention that he exercised in great things. To his splendid
attainments he added exceptional attractiveness. Unusually
distinguished in personal appearance, he possessed the
courtly manners of a gentleman of the old school which is
fast passing away, as well as a charm that never failed to
captivate. He made friends easily and kept them always.
Few men have been more beloved, for his perfect simplicity
endeared him to everyone, and his subordinates slaved for
him with genuine affection. His life was an inspiration,
his memory a benediction, and he* was indeed the embodi
ment of the very highest type of the American gentleman.

CHRONOLOGY.

CHRONOLOGY.
FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.*
September 12, 1840. Born at "Pomona Hall," Meadville, Pennsyl
vania, the home of his grandfather, Harm
Jan Huidekoper (1776-1854), the founder
of the Huidekoper family in America.
1 852 to 1 858. Educated at home by private tutors from
Harvard and Brown.
July 1 6, 1 862. Graduated at Harvard College with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts.
September 9, 1862. Death of his father, Edgar Huidekoper, at
"Hill Home," Meadville, Pennsylvania.
From 1862 to 1877. As Executor of his father's estate, he was
engaged in closing up the affairs of The
Holland Land Company of Pennsylvania,
whose lands in the northwestern part of the
State had been purchased by his grand
father on December 31,1 836.
January 8, 1863. Appointed a "Manager" (i. e. a Director) of
the Meadville Gas and Water Company.
June 29, 1863. Was enrolled as First Lieutenant of Captain
George H. Bemus' company of Pennsyl
vania Militia and called into the service of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for
ninety days.
July 1 to 11, 1863. The 58th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer
Militia, Emergency of 1 863, was recruited
at Camp Howe, Pittsburgh, and mustered
into service.
July 10, 1863. Promoted to, and commissioned, Captain of
Company F, 58th Regiment of Pennsyl
vania Militia, Emergency of 1863, under
Colonel George H. Bemus.
(Vide Bates, History of the Pennsylvania
Volunteers, vol. V, page 1310.)
*Compiled by his son, Frederic Louis Huidekoper.
Vide also "Who's Who in America" for 1903-1905, page 746; for 1906-1907, page 897;
and for 1908-1909. page 946; and "Men of America" for 1908, pages 1252 and 1253.

16 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
The 58th Regiment formed part of the forces
serving directly under Major General W. T.
H. Brooks, U. S. A., commanding the
Department of the Monongahela.
July 26, 1 863. Participated in the capture of the Confederate
General John H. Morgan and his troops
near New Lisbon, Ohio.
(Vide War of the Rebellion, Official Records,
Series I, Vol. XXIII, pages 673 et seq.;
Bates, History of the Pennsylvania Volun
teers, Vol. V, pages 1230 and 1231; and
Bates, Martial Deeds of Pennsylvania, pages
362, 363 and 365.)
July 27, 1863. Ordered by Major-General W. T. H. Brooks
to conduct the prisoners of General Morgan's
command, to Columbus, Ohio, to deliver
them to the commanding officer at Camp
Chase, and to return to Pittsburgh.
(Vide War of the Rebellion, Official Records,
Series II, Vol. VI, page 153.)
August 14, 1863. Mustered out of service at Pittsburgh.
March 2, 1 864. Elected a Manager (i. e. a Director) of the
Meadville Gas and Water Company.
He was re-elected at each successive annual
meeting and served in that capacity until
January 1, 1879.
June 30, 1 864. Elected a member of the Board of Trustees of
the Meadville Theological School, the
principal Unitarian Theological School in
the United States, which was founded by
his grandfather on October 1 , 1 844.
Mr. Huidekoper was re-elected each year
and served continuously as a Trustee until
his death in 1908.
July 18, 1865. Elected the Secretary of the Meadville Gas
and Water Company.
Was re-elected annually and served in that
capacity until April 11,1 877.

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

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January 22, 1 867.

October 21, 1868.

June 28, 1871.
July 5, 1872.
July 6, 1872.
March 8, 1874.
October 10, 1874.

October 13, 1874.
March 19, 1875.
May 24, 1876.
February 7, 1877.

Married at Meadville, Pennsylvania, Anna
Virginia Christie, only daughter of Fitz-
James Christie (deceased) of Erie, Pennsyl
vania, and Elizabeth Anna Johns Christie,
his wife.
His second brother, Herman John Huidekoper
(Captain of Company A, 127th U. S. C. I.,
August 23, 1864, to March 23, 1865, and
Major, 29th U. S. C. I., March 24, 1865,
to November 6, 1865) died at St. Paul,
Minnesota.
The Degree of Master of Arts was conferred
upon him by Harvard College.
A daughter, Gracie, was born at New York.
His daughter, Gracie, died at New York.
A son, Frederic Louis, was born at Meadville,
Pennsylvania.
Elected a Director of the Meadville Water
Company.
Was re-elected at the next three annual meet
ings and served as a Director until January
8, 1878.
Elected the Clerk (i. e. the Secretary) of the
Meadville Water Company.
Was re-elected annually and served in that
capacity until January 2, 1 877.
Elected the Chairman of the First Mortgage
Bondholders' Committee of the Chicago,
Danville and Vincennes Railroad Company.
A second son, Reginald Shippen, was born at
Meadville, Pennsylvania.
As Chairman of the First Mortgage Bond
holders' Committee, he purchased tn*e
Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad
at foreclosure sale.

18 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER,
April 1 7, 1 877. Assumed charge of the Chicago, Danville and
Vincennes Railroad as the General Manager
for the First Mortgage Bondholders' Com
mittee.
Organized and gave to the new company the
name of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Railroad Company.
August 30, 1 877. Was elected the first President of the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company
(now part of the St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad system).
Was also elected a Director and a member of
the Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors.
September 20, 1 877. Resigned as a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Board of Directors of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Company.
October 15, 1877. Re-elected a director of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, to serve
until October, 1880.
October 1 5, 1 878. Re-elected the President of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.
Also elected a member of the Finance Com
mittee of the Board of Directors.
October 21,1 879. Re-elected the President and a member of the
Finance Committee of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.
October 1 9, 1 880. Re-elected the President of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.
Also elected ex-officio member of the Execu
tive Committee of the Board of Directors.
July 18, 1 88 1 . Elected the President and a Director of the
Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad
Company.
October 4, 1881. Re-elected the President of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.
Also re-elected a Director and ex-officio
member of the Executive Committee.

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

October 25, 1881.
November 29, 1881.
February 14, 1882.
October 3, 1882.
January 2, 1883.

November 1, 1883.
December 8, 1883.
October 30, 1884.
January 9, 1 885.
January 9, 1885.
January 9, 1885.
March 4, 1885.
November 25, 1885.
December 8, 1 885.

Resigned the presidency of the Evansville and
Terre Haute Railroad Company.
Resigned the presidency of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, to take
effect on December 15, 1881.
Resigned as a Director of the Evansville and
Terre Haute Railroad Company.
Re-elected a Director of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, to serve
until October, 1885.
Also re-elected a member of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Directors.
Re-elected a Director of the Meadville Water
Company.
Was re-elected at each successive annual
meeting and served continuously as a
Director until its dissolution on February
17, 1899.
Took up his residence at Washington, D. C.
Elected a resident member of the Metropolitan
Club of Washington.
Elected a Director of the Central Iowa Rail
way Company.
Elected the First Vice-President of the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad Company (the
present Southern Railway Company).
Elected the Vice-President of the Richmond
and West Point Terminal Railway and
Warehouse Company.
Elected the Vice-President of the Virginia
Midland Railway Company.
Elected a non-resident member of the Uni
versity Club of New York.
Elected a Director of the Georgia Pacific
Railway Company.
Elected a Director of the Richmond and West
Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse
Company.

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FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER

December 9, 1885.
December 16, 1885.
December 22, 1 885.
December 22, 1885.
May 7, 1886.
May 13, 1886.

May 25, 1886.

November 13, 1886.
November 20, 1886.
December 13, 1886.

Elected a Director of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company.
Elected the President of the Virginia Midland
Railway Company.
Also elected the President of the American
Construction Company of Virginia.
Re-elected the First Vice-President of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company.
Also elected a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Board of Directors.
Re-elected the Vice-President of the Richmond
and West Point Terminal Railway and
Warehouse Ccmpany.
Arranged with the Baldwin Locomotive Works
of Philadelphia the first "Locomotive Trust"
ever made in the United States.
Purchased for $127,000 the building situated
at 1 300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington,
to which he moved the general offices of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad system
from Richmond, Virginia, on August 16,
1886.
The title to the property was taken in the name
of F. W. Huidekoper, First Vice-President.
Changed the gauge of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad system south of Danville,
Virginia, from 5 feet to the standard gauge
of 4 feet, 8j inches.
The main line was changed between sunrise
and sunset that day. The change of the
entire system (2,195 miles) was accom
plished within three days.
Purchased the sub-division in West Wash
ington known as "Burleith."
Resigned the vice-presidency of the Richmond
and West Point Terminal Railway and
Warehouse Company.
Resigned as the First Vice-President and as a
DirectorTof the Richmond and* Danville
Railroad Company.

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

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December 15, 1886.
February 21, 1887.
April 28, 1887.

June 8, 1 887.
June 10, 1887.
May I, 1888.
May 1, 1889.
May 7, 1889.
May 15, 1889.
May 29, 1889.
October 21, 1889.
October 25, 1889.
December 20, 1889.

Resigned the presidency of the Virginia Mid
land Railway Company.
Elected a non-resident member of the Harvard
Club of New York.
Was one of the incorporators and became the
first President and a Director of the Virginia,
Tennessee and Carolina Steel and Iron
Company (now the Interstate Coal and Iron
Company) by virtue of the charter granted
to it by the State of New Jersey.
Elected a resident member of the Country
Club of the District of Columbia.
Elected a Director of the Bailey Construction
Company of Virginia.
Re-elected the President and a Director of
the Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina Steel
and Iron Company.
Elected a Director of the Big Stone Gap
Improvement Company of Virginia.
Re-elected the President and a Director of the
Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina Steel and
Iron Company.
Resigned as a Director of the Central Iowa
Railway Company.
Elected the President and a Director of the
Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Rail
road Company (the present Bessemer and
Lake Erie Railroad Company).
Elected a member of the George G. Meade
Post, No. 1, Department of Pennsylvania,
Grand Army of the Republic, and was
mustered in on October 28, 1 889.
Appointed the Receiver of the Pittsburgh,
Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad Com
pany by order of Judge M. W. Acheson of
the Circuit Court of the United States for
the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Re-elected a Director of the Bailey Con
struction Company.

22

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

February I, 1890.
February 11, 1890.
April 8, 1890.
April 19, 1890.
May 5, 1890.
May 6, 1890.
May 7, 1890.
July 21, 1890.
July 26, 1890.
September 24, 1890.
January 10, 1891.
January 10, 1891.
January 13, 1891.
February 16, 1891.

Was one of the incorporators and became a
Director of the Bristol Land Company by
virtue of the charter granted to it by the
State of Virginia.
Elected the first President of the Bristol Land
Company.
Re-elected the President and a Director of the
Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Rail
road Company.
Was one of the incorporators of the Judson
Power Company of Massachusetts named
in the charter granted to it by the State of
West Virginia.
Elected the first President and a Director of
the Judson Power Company of Massa
chusetts.
Re-elected the President and a Director of the
Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina Steel and
Iron Company.
Re-elected a Director of the Big Stone Gap
Improvement Company.
Elected the President and a Director of the
Bristol Hotel Company of Virginia.
His youngest brother, Frank Colhoon Huide
koper, died at Providence, Rhode Island.
Elected the President and a Director of the
South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Company
(now part of the Virginia and Southwestern
Railway Company).
Re-elected the President and a Director of the
Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Rail
road Company.
Re-elected the President and a Director of the
Bristol Land Company.
Re-elected the President and a Director of the
Judson Power Company of Massachusetts.
Resigned as the President and as a Director of
the Bristol Land Company.

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

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March 17, 1891.
March 19, 1891.
March 30, 1891.
April 30, 1891.
May 1, 1891.
May 14, 1891.
June 15, 1892.

June 21, 1892.
August 16, 1892.

Resigned as the President and as a Director of
the Virginia, Tennessee and Carolina Steel
and Iron Company.
Resigned as the President and as a Director of
the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad
Company.
Resigned as the President and as a Director of
the Bristol Hotel Company.
Resigned as the President and as a Director of
the Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie
Railroad Company.
As Receiver of the Pittsburgh, Shenango and
Lake Erie Railroad Company, delivered
possession of the property to that Company.
Elected the Chairman of the Bondholders'
Committee of the Pittsburgh, Shenango and
Lake Erie Railroad Company.
F. W. Huidekoper and Reuben Foster were
appointed Receivers of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company by order of
Judge Hugh L. Bond of the Circuit Court
of the United States for the Eastern District
of Virginia.
Ancillary bills were also filed in the Circuit
Courts of the United States for the Western
District of North Carolina, the Eastern
District of South Carolina, the Northern
District of Georgia, the Northern District of
Alabama and the Northern District of
Mississippi, and orders entered in such
Courts confirming the original order granted
by Judge Bond.
Moved the general offices of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company from
Atlanta, Georgia, back to 1300 Pennsyl
vania Avenue, Washington, D. C.
F. W. Huidekoper and Reuben Foster were
confirmed as permanent Receivers of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company

24 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
by order of Judge Hugh L. Bond of the
Circuit Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Virginia.
January 1 8, 1 893. Elected a member of the District of Columbia
Society, Sons of the Revolution.
July 17, 1893. Samuel Spencer, F. W. Huidekoper and
Reuben Foster were appointed Receivers of
the Richmond and Danville Railroad Com
pany by order of Judge Nathan Goff of the
Circuit Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Virginia.
July 1 7, 1 893. Samuel Spencer, F. W. Huidekoper and
Reuben Foster were appointed Receivers
of the Georgia Pacific Railway Company
by order of Judge Nathan Goff of the Circuit
Court of the United States for the Northern
District of Georgia.
July 28, 1893. Samuel Spencer, F. W. Huidekoper and
Reuben Foster were apppointed Receivers
of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company by order of Judge
Nathan Goff of the Circuit Court of the
United States for the District of South
Carolina.
October 1 7, 1893. F. W. Huidekoper's Receivership of the Pitts
burgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad
Company terminated by order of Judge
Joseph Buffington of the Circuit Court of
the United States for the Western District of
Pennsylvania.
December 7, 1893. Samuel Spencer, F. W. Huidekoper and
Reuben Foster were appointed Receivers
of the Columbia and Greenville Railroad
Company by order of Judge Nathan Goff
of the Circuit Court of the United States for
the District of South Carolina.
July 25,1 894. Elected a Director of the General Compressed
Air Company of New Jersey.
Was re-elected at each annual meeting and
served as a Director until 1 898.

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

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October 12, 1894.
October 15, 1894.
October 24, 1894.
December 31, 1894.

December 31,1

Admitted to the Bar of Crawford County,
Pennsylvania.
Elected a resident member of the Chevy-Chase
Club of Washington.
Elected a member of the Society of Colonial
Wars in the District of Columbia.
F. W. Huidekoper and Reuben Foster were
"discharged" as Receivers of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company by order
of Judge Nathan Goff of the Circuit Court
of the United States for the Eastern District
of Virginia, dated December 18, 1894, to
take effect December 31,1 894.
F. W. Huidekoper and Reuben Foster were
"discharged" as Receivers of the Georgia
Pacific Railway Company by order of
Judge William T. Newman of the Circuit
Court of the United States for the Northern
¦ District of Georgia, dated December 22,
1894.
F. W. Huidekoper and Reuben Foster were
"discharged" as Receivers of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company
by order of Judge Charles H. Simonton of
the Circuit Court of the United States for
the District of South Carolina.
December 31,1 894. F. W. Huidekoper and Reuben Foster were
"discharged" as Receivers of the Columbia
and Greenville Railroad Company by order
of Judge Charles H. Simonton of the Circuit
Court of the United States for the District of
South Carolina.
Final release and discharge of F. W. Huide
koper and Reuben Foster as Receivers of
the Richmond and Danville Railroad Com
pany by orders of Judge Nathan Goff of the
Circuit Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Virginia, dated March
26, 1895, and May 28, 1895.

December 31, 1894.

May 28, 1895.

26 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
June 25, 1895. Final release and discharge of F. W. Huide
koper and Reuben Foster as Receivers of
the Georgia Pacific Railway Company by
order of Judge William T. Newman of the
Circuit Court of the United States for the
Northern District of Georgia.
July 3, 1 895. F. W. Huidekoper and General Charles Miller
began negotiations to acquire The Disston
Land Company of Florida.
July 16, 1895. Elected a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Pennsylvania Water Works
Association.
October 15, 1895. Final release and discharge of F. W. Huide
koper and Reuben Foster as Receivers of
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road Company by order of Judge Charles H.
Simonton of the Circuit Court of the United
States for the District of South Carolina.
October 15, 1895. Final release and discharge of F. W. Huide
koper and Reuben Foster as Receivers of
the Columbia and Greenville Railroad
Company by order of Judge Charles H.
Simonton of the Circuit Court of the United
States for the District of South Carolina.
April 25, 1896. Elected the President of the Chicago, Peoria
and St. Louis Railroad Company.
January 22, 1 897. Elected a Director of the Chicago, Peoria and
St. Louis Railroad Company.
May 29, 1897. Death of his mother, Mrs. Edgar Huidekoper
(nee' Frances Shippen), at "Hill Home,"
Meadville, Pennsylvania.
August 16, 1897. Resigned the presidency of the Chicago,
Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Company.
January 31,1 898. Issued a statement showing that he, as Executor
of the Estate of Edgar Huidekoper, deceased,
had distributed to his father's heirs amounts
equal to nearly five and one-third times the
value of the estate of which he had assumed
charge on September 9, 1 862.

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER. 27
December 1 9, 1 898. Elected a member of the Committee on Instal
lation of the Society of Colonial Wars in the
District of Columbia.
December 1 9, 1 899. Elected the Deputy Governor of the Society of
Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia.
March 31,1 900. F. W. Huidekoper and General Charles Miller,
by a contract dated January 13,1 900, with
the Executors of the Estate of Hamilton
Disston, acquired control of The Disston
Land Company whose lands in the Counties
of Osceola, Orange, Brevard, Dade, Polk,
De Soto and Lee in Florida, comprised
1,598,249.48 acres, together with a claim
against the Board of Trustees of the Internal
Improvement Fund of the State of Florida
for 347,753.52 acres, derived by reason of
the succession of The Disston Land Com
pany to the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal
and Okeechobee Land Company.
April 1 4, 1 900. Moved the general offices of The Disston Land
Company of Florida from Philadelphia to
734 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C.
December 1 9, 1 900. Elected the Governor of the Society of Colonial
Wars in the District of Columbia.
March 4, 1901. Foreclosed the property of The Disston Land
Company at public sale held at Kissimmee,
Florida, by John M. Lee, Special Master in
Chancery, in the case of the Columbia
Avenue Savings Fund, Safe Deposit, Title
and Trust Company, complainant, against
The Disston Land Company, defendant, in
the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial
Circuit of the State of Florida in and for
Osceola County.
• Organized The United Land Company.
April 24, 1 90 1 . Became the first President and a Director of
The United Land Company of Florida by
virtue of the charter granted to it by the
State of Florida.

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FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

May 11, 1901.
October 14, 1901.
December 17, 1901.

December 19, 1901.
January 14, 1902.
February 24, 1902.
December 3, 1902.
January 13, 1903.
March 9, 1903.
March 26, 1903.
December 3, 1903.
January 12, 1904.

Elected a member of the Executive Committee
of the Board of Directors of The United
Land Company of Florida.
Resigned as a resident member of the Chevy-
Chase Club.
His brother, Rush Shippen Huidekoper
(Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief Surgeon,
United States Volunteers— May 9, 1898, to
November 15, 1898 — and Chief Surgeon
of the First Army Corps in Porto Rico
during the Spanish-American War), died at
Philadelphia.
Elected a member of the Gentlemen of the
Council of the Society of Colonial Wars in
the District of Columbia, to serve until
December, 1904.
Re-elected a Director of The United Land
Company of Florida.
Re-elected the President and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors of The United Land Company.
Elected a member of the Board of Managers
of the District of Columbia Society, Sons
of the Revolution.
Re-elected a Director of The United Land
Company of Florida.
Elected a Director of the Compressed Air
Company of New York.
Re-elected the President and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors of The United Land Company of
Florida.
Re-elected a member of the Board of Managers
of the District of Columbia Society, Sons of
the Revolution.
Re-elected a Director of The United Land
Company of Florida.

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

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February 5, 1904.
March 7, 1904.
March 26, 1904.

December 3, 1904.
December 6, 1904.
January 10, 1905.
March 3, 1905.
September and
October, 1905.
October 16, 1905.
December 4, 1905.
January 9, 1906.
April 19, 1906.
December 4, 1906.

Re-elected the President and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors of The United Land Company of
Florida.
Re-elected a Director of the Compressed Air
Company of New York.
Honorary membership conferred upon him in
the Hereditary Order of Descendants of
Colonial Governors, by right of direct
descent from Edward Shippen, Acting
Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania
in 1703.
Elected the Vice-President of the District of
Columbia Society, Sons of the Revolution.
Re-elected a member of the Gentlemen of the
Council of the Society of Colonial Wars in
the District of Columbia, to serve until
December 3, 1907.
Re-elected a Director of The United Land
Company of Florida.
Re-elected the President and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors of The United Land Company of
Florida.
Suffered two slight strokes of paralysis at Hot
Springs, Virginia.
Re-elected a resident member of the Chevy-
Chase Club.
Elected the President of the District of Col
umbia Society, Sons of the Revolution.
Re-elected a Director of The United Land
Company of Florida.
Re-elected the President and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors of The United Land Company of
Florida.
Re-elected the President of the District of
Columbia Society, Sons of the Revolution.

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FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.

January 8, 1907.
January 21, 1907.
December 10, 1907.
January 14, 1908.
January 23, 1908.
March 13, 1908.
April 29, 1908.
May 1, 1908.

Re-elected a Director of The United Land
Company of Florida.
Re-elected the President and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors of The United Land Company of
Florida.
Re-elected the President of the District of
Columbia Society, Sons of the Revolution.
Re-elected a Director of The United Land
Company of Florida.
Re-elected the President and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors of The United Land Company
of Florida.
Suffered a severe stroke of paralysis.
Died at his residence, 1614 Eighteenth Street,
Washington, D. C, at quarter past four
o'clock in the morning.
Funeral services at his residence at three
o'clock.
The services were conducted by the Reverend
Edward Slater Dunlap, assistant rector of
Saint John's Church, assisted by the Rev
erend Doctor Randolph Harrison McKim,
rector of Epiphany Church, and by the
Reverend Doctor C. Ernest Smith, rector
of Saint Thomas' Church.
The pall-bearers were Major-General James
Harrison Wilson, Major-General Joseph
Prentice Sanger, representing the Society of
Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia,
Brigadier-General Oswald H. Emst, Rear
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, Rear
Admiral Willard H. Brownson, William
Stone Abert, Esq., representing the District
of Columbia Society, Sons of the Revolu
tion, Aulick Palmer, Esq., Hugh L. Bond,
Jr., Esq., Dr. T. Morris Murray and Larz
Anderson, Esq.
The interment took place at the Oak Hill
Cemetery, West Washington.
The laborer's work is done !

NOTICES AND RESOLUTIONS.

NOTICES.
FINANCIAL REPORT,
Friday, May 14, 1875.
Chicago, Danville, and Vincennes.— The Bondholders' Com
mittee have been actively at work, and in a circular just issued say that
about two millions of the Bonds have signed the agreement, and that
they "are confident that the best interests of all the Bondholders will
be promoted by the action which has been inaugurated and will be
vigorously pushed by this Committee." The request of six members
of the Commitee to have Mr. Huidekoper, the other member, appointed
one of the Receivers, appears eminently proper, as no person would
seem to have more earnestly at heart the welfare of the Bondholders.
THE RAILWAY AGE.
January 15, 1885.
The election a few days since of Mr. F. W. Huidekoper as first vice-
president of the Richmond & Danville Company, to be followed by
his election to a like position in the other companies composing the
Richmond & Danville system, will inspire confidence in these properties
wherever he is known. A more active, industrious, or conscientious
man, or one better fitted by experience for the work expected of him,
could not have been found. His splendid services in connection with
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road, of which he was a long time
president, have given him high rank in railway circles. So devoted
was he to the interests of that company, and so earnest and persistent in
discharge of the duties put upon him that he very nearly sacrificed his
health. Mr. Huidekoper has never been and never will be merely an
ornamental officer or figurehead. He is a worker. This the Rich
mond & Danville stockholders will not be long in discovering.
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER,
ALEXANDRIA.
Wednesday Evening, December 15, 1886.
Virginia Midland Railway. Stockholders' Meeting. Election of a New President
and Board of Directors, &c, &c.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Virginia Midland
railway was held at the office of the Company, in this city, at noon
to-day, with Hon. John S. Barbour in the chair and Mr. A. S. Dunham,
Secretary.

34 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
A committee on proxies was appointed who reported a majority of
the stock represented, whereupon,
On motion of Mr. Thomas Sedden, Mr. Thomas M. Logan was
unanimously elected President of the Company, and
Messrs. John S. Barbour, J. T. Lovell, J. C. Madden, J. A. Ruther
ford, Isaac L. Rice, Robert T. Dow, James B. Pace, C. G. Holland,
W. H. Payne, George Parsons, Alfred Sully, George F. Stone,
Emanuel Lehman, J. H. Inman and E. D. Christian directors.
General Payne then offered the following resolution, prefacing it
with some complimentary remarks of Mr. Huidekoper, who, he said,
well deserved the thanks of the stockholders for the able and efficient
manner in which he had managed the affairs of the Company:
RESOLVED, That the thanks of the stockholders of the Virginia Mid
land Railway Company are cordially tendered to President Huide
koper for the skill, energy and success with which he has managed and
developed the property, for the condition in which he leaves it, and
for the prosperity which his management predicts for the future.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. Sedden, who stated that the
owners of the road recognized the condition of the property and its
affairs when taken in charge by the late management, and that they
were not then in very good shape, and recognizing the present condition
of the road, they deemed that they should extend their thanks to Mr.
Huidekoper. The resolution was unanimously adopted, when Mr. Huidekoper
acknowledged the compliment contained in the resolution and the
remarks of the speakers, and said that it had been his aim and object
to further the interests of the road and its owners.
On motion of Mr. Huidekoper it was resolved that the presentation
of the annual reports and the other business to be acted upon at this
meeting of stockholders, be delayed until a future meeting of stock
holders, and that this meeting now adjourn till Wednesday, the 22d
inst., at 1 2 o'clock noon, at the office in this city.
NEW YORK RECORDER,
Sunday, August 7, 1 892.
Receiver F. W. Huidekoper of the Richmond & Danville ranks as
one of the brainest railway men in America.
BALTIMORE AMERICAN AND COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER,
Wednesday, August 17, 1892.
Judge Bond made Messrs. Reuben Foster and F. W. Huidekoper
permanent receivers of the Richmond & Danville Railroad yesterday,
and in so doing earned the thanks of all who are interested in the wel-

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER. 35
fare of the property. The two receivers are eminently well fitted for
the work, and their experience and high character, as well as the
general esteem in which they are held, assure the best possible handling
of the interests committed to their charge.
OBITUARY NOTICE IN THE REGISTER OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA SOCIETY, SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. FOR 1910,
pages 61 and 62.
FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
Railroad official. Born at Pomona Hall, Meadville, Pa., September 12, 1840.
Died in Washington, April 29, 1908.
Great-great-grandson of Judge Edward Shippen; President of the Commitee of
"Inspection and Observation," at Lancaster, Pa.
Great-great-grandson of Andrew Colhoon, 2d Lieutenant in Wilson's 6th Battalion,
Pennsylvania Troops.
Mr. Huidekoper graduated at Harvard College, in 1 862, and received
the degree of A. M., in 1871 . He served in 1863 as Captain of the
58th Pennsylvania Militia, along the Ohio and at Buffington Island
in the capture of General John H. Morgan. He was a member of the
Society of Colonial Governors; of the Society of Colonial Wars,
being governor in 1900, 1901; of the District of Columbia Society,
Sons of the Revolution, of which he was the vice-president, 1 903 to
1 905, and president, 1 905 till his death; also a member of the Meade
Post, G. A. R., and the following clubs: Metropolitan, Country, and
Chevy-Chase, of Washington, and the University and Harvard, of
New York.
His business life was chiefly as an official and generally president of
several railroads, and he was widely known in these circles as an able
executive. He administered the affairs of the Holland Land Company
of Pennsylvania for fourteen years; in 1877 was President of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois R.R. Co.; in 1881 was President of
the Evansville & Terre Haute R.R. Co.; in 1885 was first vice-
president of the Richmond & Danville system, now the Southern
Railway, being in practical control; was vice-president of the
Richmond & West Point Terminal Railroad and Warehouse Com
pany, and of the Virginia Midland Railroad Company; in 1886
was President of the latter company; in 1 887 was President of the
Virginia, Tennessee & Carolina Steel & Iron Company; in 1 889 was
President and Receiver of the Pittsburgh, Shenango & Lake Erie
Railroad; in 1890 was President of the South Atlantic & Ohio Rail
road; in 1892 he was appointed Receiver of the Richmond & Danville
Railroad, and in 1893 he was appointed receiver of the Georgia
Pacific, Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, and the Columbia

36 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
& Greenville Railroad; in 1896 he was President of the Chicago,
Peoria & St. Louis Railway; since 1901, he was President of The
United Land Company of Florida. He was instrumental in the
reorganization of the Southern Railway system and brought the main
offices to Washington. For forty years he was a trustee of the Mead
ville Theological School.
Mr. Huidekoper was a gentlemen of culture, fine manners and dis
position, and his great executive ability and integrity made him a most
valuable officer. As President of the District of Columbia Society, Sons
of the Revolution, he endeared himself to every member by his great
courtesy and affability and his genial conduct in the chair. He died
as the result of paralysis. His wife and two sons: Frederic Louis and
Reginald Shippen, survive him.

RESOLUTIONS.
COPY OF RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS RAILROAD COMPANY,
IN ACCEPTING THE RESIGNATION AS PRESIDENT OF F. W.
HUIDEKOPER, ESQ.
RESOLVED. That in accepting the resignation of Mr. Huidekoper the
Board of Directors desire to express their unfeigned regret for the illness
which has compelled him to take this action and their earnest hope
that a few months of entire freedom from business care and anxiety,
will restore him to health and enable him to take his place again with
them. During the time that Mr. Huidekoper has had charge of the affairs
of the C. & E. I. R. R. the improvement in the condition of the
property in its earnings and business relations, and in its credit and
the value of its securities has been very marked, and beyond the
most sanguine expectations; and it is the deliberate opinion of this
board that this improvement is largely owing to the ability, fidelity
and energy of the President of this Company.
While the board testify their sense of obligation to Mr. Huidekoper
for his zeal in the Company's interest and the success which has attended
his administration, their regret in parting with him is intensified by the
recollection of the pleasant personal relations which
[Seal.] have always characterized their intercourse.
Attest: A. S. DUNHAM, Secretary.
EXCERPT FROM MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
STOCKHOLDERS OF THE VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILWAY COM
PANY HELD IN THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA, VA., ON DECEMBER
15, 1886.
Mr. Payne offered the following resolution which was duly seconded
and unanimously adopted and the Secretary instructed to have same
engrossed and presented to Mr. Huidekoper:
Resolved. That the thanks of the Stockholders of The Virginia
Midland Railway Company are cordially tendered to President Huide
koper for the skill, energy and success with which he has managed and
developed the property, for the condition in which he leaves it, and for
the prosperity which his management predicts for the future.
Mr. Seddon on the part of the Richmond & West Point Terminal

38 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
Railway and Warehouse Company and other owners stated that the
owners of the property, recognizing the condition of the same and its
affairs when taken in charge by the late management, and recognizing
the present improved and prosperous condition of the Company,
desired to express through him, their appreciation of Mr. Huidekoper's
management, and to extend to him their thanks.
COPY OF THE RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE STOCKHOLDERS OF
THE VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. DECEMBER
15, 1886, ON THE RETIREMENT OF MR. F. W. HUIDEKOPER AS
PRESIDENT.
RESOLVED. That the thanks of the Stockholders of the Virginia
Midland Railway Company are cordially tendered to President Huide
koper for the skill, energy and success.with which he has managed and
developed the property, for the condition in which he leaves it, and
for the prosperity which his management predicts
[Seal.] for the future.
T. H. WENTWORTH, Jr.,
Secretary.
EXCERPT FROM THE MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CHICAGO, PEORIA & ST. LOUIS
RAILROAD COMPANY, AUGUST 16, 1897.
The President (Mr. F. W. Huidekoper) presented his resignation
in the following form: "New York, August 16, 1897.
To the Board of Directors of
The Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis R. R. Co. of 111.
Gentlemen: —
It seems proper that the affairs of your Company should have its
Chief Executive upon the line of its road to look after and direct them.
As it will not be convenient for me to reside there, I herewith tender my
resignation as President of your Company.
Yours truly. (Signed) F. W. HUIDEKOPER."
General Counsel Cromwell expressed his personal regret at this
action of the President, in which sentiment all the Directors concurred.
Upon motion, it was
RESOLVED, That this Board accept with regret the resignation of the
President, and considering that the Company has need for his valuable
experience, he is respectfully urged to continue to give to the Company
such advice, information and service as maybe called for by the Execu-

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER. 39
tive Officers, without interference with his other occupations or business
plans; and that in consideration of the same his present compensation be
continued until the annual meeting of the Company in December next;
and upon his acceptance hereof this resolution shall be final and effective
without any further action of the Board, and the Executive Officers
shall carry out the same.
Upon motion, the resignation of President Huidekoper was accepted,
and the foregoing resolution was unanimously adopted.
COPY OF THE RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE BOARD OF DIREC
TORS OF THE UNITED LAND COMPANY OF FLORIDA AT A
MEETING HELD IN WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. 1908.
RESOLVED, That The United Land Company has suffered a loss
truly irreparable in the death of its President, Frederic Wolters Huide
koper, Esq. To his great ability both the conduct of the difficult
negotiations resulting in the acquisition of the great property of The
Disston Land Company of Florida, and the organization of The
United Land Company are principally indebted. To his foresight,
wisdom and singleness of devotion to the cares entrusted to his charge,
The United Land Company owes the continuous prosperity which
has attended it since its inception. A splendid example of the highest
type of American, a man of unspotted integrity, of exceptional attain
ments, brilliant in intellect, sound in judgment, steadfast in trial, resource
ful and sanguine always even under the most disadvantageous condi
tions, a courtly gentleman of the old school, it was both an honor and a
pleasure, as well as a splendid stimulus, to serve either with or under him.
His death indeed makes vacant a place which can never be filled in
the minds or hearts of the officials and employes of this Company.
RESOLVED ALSO. That the interests of The United Land Company
will, in the estimation of the Board of Directors, be best subserved in
the future by a close adherence to the admirable policies laid down
by its late President.
RESOLVED FURTHER, That a copy of these resolutions be engrossed
and transmitted to the members of the family of the late President as a
testimonial of the sense of obligation owed by The United Land Com
pany to his invaluable services, and of the admiration and respect that he
commanded, as well as in token of the sympathy with which it shares
their great loss.
C. W. WARD,
[Seal.] Secretary.

40 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
CLASS OF 1862, HARVARD COLLEGE.
Whereas our Classmate Frederic Wolters Huidekoper has died since
he met with us last year,
RESOLVED, That the class remembers with respect his patriotic
service as a soldier, and has always recognized and now wishes to
commemorate the fact that his kind spirit and courteous good fellow
ship have helped greatly to strengthen our college ties and to add to
mutual warm appreciation between widely differing natures.
Distinguished as his success in business has been, his heart has en
deared him to his classmates.
RESOLVED, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family as
a mark of the sympathy of the class.
A True Copy of the Records of the Class of 1 862.
Attest: CHARLES GRINNELL, Secretary.
24 June, 1908.
IN MEMORIAM
FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
Frederic Wolters Huidekoper died in Washington City on April 29,
1 908, as a result of a stroke of paralysis.
He was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, on September 12,1 840,
and was a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1862. The
descendant of a distinguished Dutch family on his father's side, and on
the maternal side of the famous Shippen family, he combined the
splendid traits of the best blood of the early settlers in Pennsylvania.
On leaving college he gave his services to his country and served
with distinction during the Civil War. Years of successful connection
and association with the great railroad development followed, during
the greater portion of which Washington was his home.
Justly proud of his ancestry he joined the Society of Colonial Wars
in the District of Columbia, and in 1 900 was elected to the governor
ship of that organization. Devoted to the interests of the Society he
was a regular attendant at its meetings and his influence was always
exerted for those measures which were of value in extending the
historical and patriotic work of the order.
By his death the Society loses one of its most distinguished officers
and its members a loyal friend.
Therefore be it —

FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER. 41
RESOLVED, That this minute be placed upon the records of the
Society and that a copy be sent as a further expression of our sympathy
to his family.
MARCUS BENJAMIN,
A. HOWARD CLARK,
THOS. HYDE.
[Seal.] Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the
Society held January 26, 1909.
J. BURR JOHNSON,
Secretary.

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT A MEETING OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA SOCIETY, SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. HELD APRIL
19. 1909.
TO THE MEMORY OF
FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
Whereas, it has pleased Divine Providence to take from us our
brother, Frederic Wolters Huidekoper, late President of the Sons of
the Revolution, and we would put upon record a tribute to his char
acter, therefore be it
RESOLVED, That in the death of our late President this Society has
lost a member conspicuous for efficiency, constant in his devotion to its
best interests, and greatly liked for his courteous and kindly bearing, a
gentleman of sterling qualities both of mind and heart, who had per
formed the duties of his office with signal ability and with a simplicity
of conduct that won our affectionate regard;
RESOLVED, That as we look back and note with what fidelity Mr.
Huidekoper labored to advance the welfare of our organization, we
would pay to his memory a grateful tribute. Just and considerate, he
was ever attentive, active and genial. He walked in the path that led
to the firmer welding together of our members into a strong and enduring
bond of friendship. Nor did anyone accomplish more than he to
help that process steadily along.
While we mourn our loss we seek comfort in the reflection that Mr.
Huidekoper in all relations of life did his duty manfully, acquiring
thereby the hearty respect of this entire community.
Of his family we ask that we may be permitted to assure them of our
sympathy for them in sustaining the burden of sorrow they have been
called upon to bear.

42 FREDERIC WOLTERS HUIDEKOPER.
RESOLVED. That these resolutions be entered upon the minutes and
that the Secretary be directed to transmit a copy of the same to the
family of Mr. Huidekoper.
WILLIAM STONE ABERT,
President.
A. KEITH PARRIS, Jr., Secretary.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY
OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA.
Organized May 20, 1893.
Register of the Society, 1897. With portrait of Richard Worsam
Meade, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. pp. 124.
Register of the Society, 1904. With frontispiece of badge of the
Society of Colonial Wars, portrait of Francis Asbury Roe,
Rear Admiral, U. S. N., First Governor of the Society,
and other officers. Twenty-two portraits, pp.214.
MEMORIAL PAPERS.
No. I. George Brown Goode. By A. Howard Clark. With por
trait. pp.8. 1896.
No. 2. Charles Frederick Tiffany Beale. By Marcus Benjamin.
With portrait, pp.13. 1902.
No. 3. William Herman Wilhelm, Captain, U. S. A. By Ethan
Allen Weaver. With portrait, pp.9. 1902.
No. 4. Francis Asbury Roe, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. By Marcus
Benjamin. With portrait and eight illustrations, pp. 35.
1903.
No. 5. Gilbert Thompson. By Marcus Benjamin. With portrait.
pp. 18. 1910.
No. 6. Frederic Wolters Huidekoper. By Frederic Louis Huidekoper.
With portrait, chronology, notices and resolutions, pp. 42.
1910. HISTORICAL PAPERS.
No. 1. The Colonial Boundaries of Virginia and Maryland. By
Gilbert Thompson. With map. pp. 8. 1 899.
No. 2. An American Sea Captain of Colonial Times. By Francis
Asbury Roe, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. pp. 1 1 . 1900.
No. 3. Historical Military Powder-horns. By Gilbert Thompson.
With eleven illustrations, pp.16. 1901.
No. 4. Historical Address at Dedication of the Braddock Boulder,
November 1 0, 1 907. By Marcus Benjamin. With four
illustrations, pp. 16. 1908.
No. 5. Colonel Joseph Belt. By Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr. With
Patent and illustration of "Chevy-Chase" manor-house.
pp.36. 1909.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Address of Welcome, by his Excellency, Governor Francis A. Roe,
U. S. N., at first dinner of the Society, December 1 9, 1 893.
PP- 8.
Preliminary draft of a Constitution, printed upon half-sheets and sent
to members for suggestions, pp. 1 8. November, 1 894.
The preceding was adopted and printed in February, 1895. A cir
cular of four pages, with preamble and qualifications for
membership, was printed, 1895; also, a similar circular,
giving list of members, was printed January, 1896. A
list of membership is published annually as a circular,
pp.4.
The Year Book and Register of the Society, 1 897, contains the Con
stitution and By-Laws as amended to that date.
Preliminary draft of Constitution, printed and sent to members for
suggestions. With cover, pp. 17. April, 1902.
The preceding was adopted without change, May 13, 1902, and
printed, with embossed seal of the Society on the cover.
pp. 16.
First Service, Sunday, February 12, 1905. St. John's Church,
Georgetown. (With embossed seal.) pp. 1 2.
Second Annual Service, Sunday, February 18, 1906. St. John's
Church, Washington. (With embossed seal.) pp. 12.
Third Annual Service, Sunday, February 17, 1907. Epiphany
Church, Washington. (Without seal.) pp. 12.
Dedication Service, Sunday, November 10, 1907. Cathedral
Grounds, Washington. One illustration, of the Braddock
tablet and boulder, pp. 1 2.
Fourth Annual Church Service, Sunday, April 26, 1908. Christ
Church, Georgetown, D. C. (Without seal.) pp. 8.
Fifth Annual Church Service, Sunday, May 2, 1909. St. John's
Church, Washington. (Without seal.) pp. 9.
Sixth Annual Church Service, Sunday, May 8, 1910. St. John's
Church, Washington. (Without seal.) pp. 9-
Dedication Service, Sunday, October 30, 1910, Colonel Ninian Beall
memorial. St. John's Church-yard, Georgetown. With
illustration of tablet and boulder, pp. 1 0.
CALEB CLARKE MAGRUDER, Jr.,
Historian.
December, 1910.

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