Eri Baker Hulbert III was born in 1905 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was the son of Charles Eri Hulbert and Esther Margaret Linn (a niece of Jane Addams). He moved to Chicago with his family the following year. Hulbert spent several years as a resident of Hull House and was an active participant and later drama director of its theater programs. He later attended Chicago high schools, then the Lewis Institute, and the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph. D. in 1932. He married Margaret Hodges Brown in 1941. They had no children. Eri Hulbert had an active and varied career. He was a teacher at Piedmont Junior High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1927-1928. He was an actor and director at the Chicago Art Theater from 1928-1931. He was a farmhand in Thief River Falls, Minnesota from 1932-1933. From 1934-1935, Hulbert worked as director of research, supervisor, and emergency relief administrator for Transient Service in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was a case supervisor and teacher for the Kansas Emergency Relief Commission in Topeka, Kansas, from 1935-1937. From 1937-1940, he was counselor and head of tenant selection for Jane Addams Houses for the Chicago Housing Authority. And from 1940-1942, he served as an associate counselor for the Tenant Relations branch of the U.S. Housing Authority. After his marriage, Hulbert returned to Chicago and took a job as Chief of Project Services for the Federal Public Housing Authority from 1942-1946. From 1946-1947, he served as chief regional representative for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China. When he returned from China, he became the executive secretary (employed by Hull House) for the Temporary Organizing Committee for the Redevelopment of the Near West Side, 1948-1949. From 1949 until his death on May 3, 1955, Eri Hulbert was the Director of the Near West Side Planning Board. In connection with his career as teacher, social worker, and activist, Hulbert was also the author of several articles and pamphlets on tenant selection, race relations, relocation, and urban renewal. He also gave lectures on housing and planning at the University of Chicago and Roosevelt University.
From the description of Papers, 1934-1965. (University of Illinois-Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 53299902
