MEMORIAL. 



Henry Hitchcock. 

 1829-1902. 



At the annual meeting of the Trustees of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion held November 25, 1902, the death of Mr. Henry Hitchcock, 

 one of the Trustees, having been announced, it was ordered, on 

 motion of Mr. Higginson, that the following minute be adopted and 

 spread upon the record : 



The death of Mr. Henry Hitchcock has deprived this Board of 

 Trustees of a cultured and wise counsellor, a progressive leader, and 

 a valued associate. Mr. Hitchcock stood for all that was noble in 

 manhood and the development of man. His every effort was to 

 serve any cause with which he was connected with all the power 

 and ability he possessed. We tender to the members of his bereaved 

 family sincere sympathy, and place this resolution in our minutes 

 as a permanent record of our appreciation and esteem. 



The following account is copied from the Obituary record of grad- 

 uates of Yale University, June, 1902, No. 61, pp. 135-138 : 



Henry Hitchcock, son of Hon. Henry Hitchcock (University of 

 Vermont, 18 13) and Anne (Erwin) Hitchcock, was born on July 3, 

 1829, at Spring Hill, six miles from Mobile, Ala. His father was a 

 native of Burlington, Vt., Secretary of the Territory of Alabama, 

 Attorney General and afterward Chief Justice of the State of Ala- 

 bama, a man of the highest character, beloved throughout the State; 

 and his grandfather, Samuel Hitchcock (Harvard, 1777), who mar- 

 ried a daughter of Ethan Allen, was United States District and Cir- 

 cuit Judge, drafted the charter of the University of Vermont, was 

 Secretary of the same from 1790 to 1800, and Trustee from its be- 

 ginning until his death in 18 13. His mother was the daughter of 

 Colonel Andrew Erwin, of Bedford count}^, Tennessee. 



After the death of his father his mother removed with her family 

 first to Kentucky, and then to Nashville, Tenn. There he entered 

 the junior class in the University of Nashville, and received the 

 degree of Bachelor of Arts in November, 1846. Immediately after- 

 ward he came to New Haven and joined the class, then in its junior 

 year, in Yale College, and graduated with the honor of an oration. 



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