Hurlbut

ters. After graduating from college he spent a
year teaching in the Seminary at Pennington,
N. J. In 1865 he joined the Newark Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His pastor-
ates included Roseville Church, Newark, Trinity
Church, Staten Island, and churches at Mont-
clair, Paterson, Plainfield, and Hoboken. In 1875
he visited Chautauqua, N. Y., where the year be-
fore Lewis Miller and John H. Vincent [qq.vJ\
had founded the Sunday School Assembly. This
visit proved to be a turning point in Hurlbut's
life, as he tells us in The Story of Chautauqua
(1921). It sent him to Chautauqua for over fifty
consecutive years, and brought him into close
connection with Vincent, to whom he was as-
sistant, 1879-88, first as field agent, then as as-
sistant secretary of the Methodist Sunday School
Union and Tract Society and assistant editor of
its publications. In 1888 when Vincent was
elected bishop, Hurlbut was elected to succeed
him, as secretary and editor. He was one of the
first advocates of the graded Sunday school and
largely prepared the way for the Religious Edu-
cation Movement of a later generation. His in-
terest in the Chautauqua Movement never abat-
ed. He believed that nearly all of the older wo-
man's dubs grew out of it and that the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union had its beginnings
there. He graduated with the first Chautauqua
Literary and Scientific Circle class in 1882, and
was its president.

In addition to his other duties he served as the
first corresponding secretary of the Epworth
League, 1889-92. He became a pastor again in
1900 and served Morristown, South Orange,
and Bloomfield, N. J.3 and was then for five
years district superintendent of the Newark
District, retiring in 1918. He was the author of
a list of books numbering fully thirty titles, some
of which ran through several editions and had
large sales. Of these, besides The Story of
Chautauqua, the most important were: Manual
of Biblical Geography (1884; revised, 1899);
Organizing and Building utp the Sunday School
(1910); Our Church: What Methodists Believe
and How They Work (1902); Outline Normal
Lessons for Normal Classes (1885); Revised
Normal Lessons (1893); Sunday Hdj Hours
with Great Preachers (1907). He was also the
editor of many books. Some time after 1900 he
formed a connection with the J. C. Winston
Company of Philadelphia, and edited, revised,
and rewrote a number of volumes for them.
Of the teacher-preacher type, he was in great
demand as a speaker at Chautauquas all over the
country. His manner was gracious and cour-
teous, his address pleasing.

Hurlbut

On Mar. 5, 1867, he married Mary M. Chase
of New York City, who died Feb. 16, 1913.
They were the parents of seven children, three
of whom survived their father. He died at
Bloomfield, N. J., in his eighty-eighth year.

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Hersog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, vol. V
(1909); Alumni Record of Wesleyan Univ. (1021):
Christian Advocate (N. Y.), Aug. 14, 1930; J. H.
Vincent, The Chautauqua Movement (1886); Albert
Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst—A Biog. (1905); H. H.
Hurlbut, The Hurlbut Genetf. (1888); N. Y! Times.
Aug. 4, 1930.] sa>L

HURLBUT, STEPHEN AUGUSTUS (Nov.
29, i8is-Mar. 27, 1882), Union soldier, con-
gressman, was born in Charleston, S. C. His
father, Martin Luther Hurlbut, teacher and Uni-
tarian minister, was a native of Southampton,
Mass., and a descendant of Thomas Hurlbut
who settled about 1635 at Saybrook, Conn., and
later moved to Wethersfield; his mother, before
her marriage, was Lydia Bunce of Charleston.
William Henry Hurlbert for.], author and
editor, was his half-brother. Stephen Hurlbut
was admitted to the bar in 1837, served in the
Seminole War, and in 1845 migrated to Illinois,
settling at Belvidere, where two years later,
May 13, 1847, he married Sophronia R Stevens.
He was elected as a Whig to the Illinois consti-
tutional convention of 1847 fr°m Boone and
McHenry counties, was presidential elector on
the Whig ticket in 1848, and was elected as a
Republican to the Illinois General Assembly for
1858-59 and 1860-61. At the outbreak of the
Civil War, he was commissioned brigadier-gen-
eral, May 17, 1861. He served in northern Mis-
souri in 1861, and commanded the 4th Division
at Shiloh, being stationed in reserve on the left,
apparently handling his unit bravely and skil-
fully. He was promoted to major-general, as of
Sept 17, 1862. In the campaign of Corinth, he
conducted the turning movement against the
Confederate communications. During the re-
mainder of the campaign of 1862-63, he was sta-
tioned at Memphis, being assigned in Decem-
ber to the command of the XVI Army Corps. In
the Vicksburg campaign of 1863, k*s »iiss5oa
was to assure the safety of Memphis as the base
of operation. In July 1863, he sought to re-
sign on personal grounds, but a month later
withdrew his resignation (Official Records, post,
i ser. LXVII, 398-99* 436-37)- He took part in
Sherman's raid toward Mobile in February 1864.
On Aug. 5 of that year he was ordered to report
to General Canby in the division of West Mis-
sissippi for assignment to duty. Assigned to
command the Department of the Gulf, to Lin-
coln's distress he harassed the loyal government

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