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Supreme Court of the United States, in New York, in February, 

 1890, an address on " The Exercise of the Powers of the Court," 

 a historical review of the principal decisions on constitutional 

 questions. He received the degree of Doctor of I^aws from Yale 

 College in 1874. 



Since the establishment of the Missouri Botanical Garden at St. 

 Louis, by bequest of Mr. Henry Shaw, in 1889, he had been Vice- 

 President of the Board of Trustees. 



Mr. Hitchcock died at his home in St. Louis, after an illness of 

 several weeks, from heart disease, on March 18, 1902, in his seventy- 

 third 3^ear. 



He married, on March 5, 1857, Mary, eldest daughter of George 

 Collier, a prominent merchant of St. Louis, and had two sons, who, 

 with their mother, survive. 



