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Hitchcock, Henry Laurens, educator, college president, was liorn Oct. l."l. 1813, in Henton, Ohio. In 18r>5-71 he was president of the Vest«'rn Reserve college, lie died .July 0, 187.'{, in Iludnon, Ohio. Hitchcock, Peter, lawyer, jurist, state senat«»r. congressman, was born Oct. 11), 1781, in ("lieshire. t'onn. In 1810 he was elected to the general assembly of Ohio; in 1812-lG was a member of the state senate, and president of that body one session. In 1817-10 he was a rcpr.'sentative to the tifteentn congress; was then chosen judge of the supreme court of Ohio for seven years; and was re-elected to the same oilice in 1826. In 1833-3.') he was again a member of the state senate, and once again president. He died May 11, 1853. in Painesville, Ohio. Hitchcock, Phineas Warrener, lawyer, congressman. I iiited States senator, was born Nov. 30, 1831. in New I>ebanon. N.Y. He was marshal of Nebraska territory; and in 18tM (i7 he was territorial delegate to the thirty-ninth congress. In 18r(7 he was appointed surveyor-general of Nebraska. Hitchcock, Ripley, critic, author, was born .July 3, IHTn. in Fitchburg. Mass. He is a litterateur of New York City, and the author of The Western Art Movement; .Study of (Jeorge Inness; Ktching in Amer-

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Madonnas by Old Masters: Ktchings by American Artists; Water Color Painting in America; The Future of Ktching; and other ica:

works. Hitchcock, Robert Bradley, naval

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officer,

2."). 18(13, in Chcsliire, Ohio. niidNliipman in 1S2.">; and became cominoiWire in I8I!2. He was commandant of the Norfolk navy yard in I80t»; and was retired in 1807. He died .March 2.'>, 1883, in New York City. Roswell Dwight, e«lucator, Hitchcock, clcrLrynian. MUtlior, w;is born Aug. 15. 1817, in ICa.st Machias, Maine. He tilled the chair

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SouMi Somerset. Mass. Hitchcock, Samuel, lawyer, jurist. In 17^3

he was appointrchant, i>1iilanthropist. was born in 1784 in Brimtield.

Mass. He was a |>oor lx»y; an<l eventually amassed a fortune of thrw million ch)IIars His gilts to IxMievolent enterpri-- s include an endownment of eighty thousand dollars to the Hitchcock fn^e high schotd of BrimHeld. Mass.; one hundred and seventy tive tiiousand dollars to Amherst college; one hundred and twrnty thousaml dollars to the tluHtlogical seminarj' at Andover. .Mas,s. lifty thousand dollars to the Illinois college at .laeksonville, III.; eighty thousand dollars to TalM»r college of Iowa; and forty thou;

san«l «hdlars to the Congri-gational

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Boston. Mass.

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Brimtield, Mass.

Hitchcock, Thomas, journalist, lawyer, author, WU8 l>orn Dec. I. 1831. in New York City. In 1853-OS he practici d law; and in 18<iS joined the inlitorial stalf i»f the New York .Sun. His writings have appeared in that newspaper on social, lileiary and tinan cial subjects under the name of Matthew Marshall. Hite, Bert Holmes, educator and scientist of Morgnntown, W.N a., was Uirn Aug. 18, 1800, in Morgantown. W.Na. He received (he degree of M..S. from university of West 'irginia; and attended the Johns Hopkins Since 18n8 he has Iwen prouniversity. fessor of agricultural chemistry in the West Virginia university: since 1895 has been chief chemist of llie West Virginia agricultural experiment station; and since 1898 has l>een chief chemisl to the West Virginia Hitt, Isaac R., lawyer, public oflicial. auIhor, was Iwm Sept. 7. 1804. in Chicago. Ill, 1888 he graduated with the degree of B.S. from the Northwestern university of
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1894 graduated from

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college of law. In 1898 1902 he elerk in the law division of the internal revenue in the treasury ilepartment of the I'niled Stati-s; and since 1902 he has luK'n chi<'f of the miscfllaneous division of th' I'liiled States internal revenue. He is a member of the bar; and in 1900 compiled tlie international rev«'nue laws for the I'lMt".] Stilt'* trea-iiry depiirtment.

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Hitt, Robert Roberts, diplomat, congressman. w,is Uirn .Ian. 10. 1834. in I rbana. Ohio. he was first secretary In 1874 of the .meriean legation at I'aris. Franc*-: iind was assistant secretary of state of IlliISSI 1907 he was a reprenois in 18SI. Ill S4«nt;i(ive from Illinois to the forty-seventh, forty eighth. tr>rty-ninth. fiftieth, fifty-tirst. fifty thinl. tifty seeond, tifty-fourth. fiftyfifty-sixth, fifty seventh, fifth, fifty-eighth and fiiiy ninth cfuigre-ses as a republican. In ISOS was eommissionor to Hawaiian Is-

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