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HISCOCK, Frank, senator, was born in Pom- pey, Onondaga county, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1834; son of Richard and Cynthia (Harris) Hiscock. His father, a farmer, was a native of Pompey, N.Y., and of New England ancestry, and his mother, born in Preble, Cortland county, N.Y., wasof New York ancestry. Frank was educated at Pom- pey academy and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He began practice in Pompey, N.Y., and was district attorney for Onon- daga county, 1860-63, and a member of the state constitutional convention of 1867. He represented his district in the 45th, ,"" 46th, 47th, 48th and

•^/'aWi>'/^A^C&^^ 49th congresses, 1877- 87, and was elected to the 50th congress, but before the meeting of that congress he was elected by the legisla- ture of the state, Jan. 20, 1887, a U.S. senator to succeed Warner Miller, whose term expired Marcli 3, 1887. He was ciiairman of the Quadro- Centennial select committee and of the committee on organization, conduct and expeditions of the executive departments, and a naeniber of the coast defence, finance, interstate commerce and patent committees and of the select committee on the President's message transmitting the report of the Pacific railway commission. His term as U.S. senator expired March 3, 1893, and he en- gaged in the practice of law in Syracuse and be- came a director in the Syracuse savings bank, the State Bank of Syracuse, and the Trust and Deposit company of Onondaga. He was also a member of the Union League and Republican clubs of New York city and of the Syracuse club. He was married, Nov. 23, 1859, to Cornelia King, of Tully, N.Y.

HISE, Elijah, representative, was born in Al- legheny county. Pa., in 1801. His parents, who were of German descent, removed to Kentucky and settled in Russellville, Logan county, where Elijah was educated and became a member of the bar. He was a supporter of Jackson and was defeated as a candidate for representative in tiie state legislature in 1828, but was elected in 1829. He was a judge of the court of appeals by ai)point- ment and subsequently by election. He was appointed charge d'affaires to Guatemala in 1848, authorized to negotiate with San Salvador, Hon- duras. Nicaragua and Costa Rica: a presidential elector in 1856. and a representative in the 39th congress, 1866-67. to fill the unexpired term of

Henry Grider, who died, Sept. 14, 1866. He was re-elected to the 40th congress, but died by his own hand at Russellville, Ky., May 8, 1867.

HITCHCOCK, Alfred, surgeon, was born in Westminster, Vt., Oct. 17, 1814; son of David and Hannah (Owen) Hitchcock; grandson of Eldad and Esther (Hoar) Hitchcock, and a de- scendant in the seventh generation of Luke Hitch- cock. He prepared for college at Phillips Andover academy and was graduated M.D., from Dart- mouth in 1838, from Berkshire Medical college in 1843, and from Jefl'erson Medical college, Pa., in 1845. After practising in Ashby, Mass., for a few years he removed to Fitchburg, where he became a prominent surgeon. He was the second surgeon to perform the operation of ossopha- gotomy. and he designed numerous surgical ap- pliances which came into general use. He was several times a member of the state legislature between 1847 and 1855, and was a member of Gov. John A. Andrew's council, 1862-64. During the civil war he was a special agent of the state to superintend the care of the wounded, and in 1864 was director of the transportation of the Massachusetts wounded. He was married first to Fidelia Dorcas, daughter of Barnabas Clark; secondly, Jan. 1, 1851, to Aureiia Phebe Well- man, and thirdly, in 1865, to Ellen Clark. He was an overseer of Harvard college, 1859-65. Middlebury college conferred upon him the de- gree of A.M. in 1844. He published Christianity and Medical Science (1867). He died in Fitch- burg, Mass., March 30. 1874.

HITCHCOCK, Charles Henry, geologist, was born in Amherst, Mass., Aug. 23, 1836; son of Edward and Orra (White) Hitchcock. He was graduated from Amherst in 1856; and studied in Yale Theological seminary, 1856-57, and in Andover The- ological seminar}-, 1859-61. He was the principal assistant on the geological sur- vey of Vermont, 1857- 61, assisting in the preparation the "Re- port on the Geology of Vermont "(2 vols., 1861); and was direc- tor of the Maine geo- logical survey, 1861- 63, preparing the re- ports on the "Nat- ural History and Geology of the State of Maine " (1861-62). He was lecturer on zoology at Am- herst, 1858-64; was a mining geologist in New York city, 1864-65; and studied in the Jermyn School of Mines, and the British ^luseum, London,