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Hitchcock, Charles Henry – Hizar, Julier Clyde

Hitchcock, Charles Henry

geologist, author, was born Aug. 23, 1836, in Amherst, Mass. He is the state geologist of New Hampshire, and the author of Natural History and Geology of Maine; New Hampshire Geological Survey; and The Geology of New Hampshire.

Hitchcock, David

author, poet, was born in 1773, in Bethlehem, Conn.

His principal poem, The Shade of Plato, is written with ease and smoothness, and closes with expostulations on the revolutionary principles in vogue at the beginning of the century. His other writings are The Social Monitor; and Christ Not the Minister of Sin, a controversy. He died after 1832.

Hitchcock, Edward

clergyman, geologist, college president, author, was born May 24, 1793, in Deerfield, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, state geologist of Massachusetts in 1833-1844, and president of Amherst college in 1845-54.

He was the author of Religion of Geology; Illustrations of Surface Geology; Fossil Footprints in the United States; Ichnology of New England; Dyspepsia Forestalled and Resisted; Religious Truth Illustrated from Science; Elementary Geology; and Reminiscences of Amherst College. He died Feb. 27, 1864, in Amherst, Mass.

Hitchcock, Edward

educator, author, was born May 23, 1828, in Amherst, Mass. He is a physician, professor of hygiene in Amherst college from 1861, and the author of Anatomy and Physiology.

Hitchcock, Enos

clergyman, author, was born March 7, 1744, in Springfield, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Providence once famous as a preacher, and the author of Treatise on Education; Sermons; and Catechetical Instruction for Children and Youth. He died Feb. 27, 1803, in Providence, R. I.

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen

soldier, author, was born May 18, 1798, in Vergennes, Vt. He was a general in the federal army during the civil war. He was the author of Alchemy and the Alchemists; Swedenborg, a Hermetic Philosopher; Christ the Spirit, an argument for the symbolic exposition of the Gospels; Remarks on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Spenser's Colin Clout Explained; and Notes on Dante's Vita Nuova. He died Aug. 5, 1870, in Hancock, Ga.

Hitchcock, Henry Laurens

college president, was born Oct. 13, 1813, ın Benton, Ohio. president of the Western Reserve college In 1855 he was elected and filled that position until 1871. He died July 6, 1873, in Hudson, Ohio.

Hitt, Robert Roberts

diplomat, congressman, was born Jan. 16, 1834, in Urbana, Ohio. He was first secretary of the American legation at Paris, France, from 1874 to 1881; and was assistant secretary of state of Illinois in 1881. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

Hittell, John Shertzer

journalist, author, was born in 1825, in Pennsylvania. He is a journalist of San Francisco, and the author of Evidences against Christianity; Mining in the Pacific States; Brief History of Culture; History of San Francisco; The Spirit of the Papacy; History of Mental Growth of Mankind in Ancient Times; and Resources of California.

Hittell, Theodore Henry

lawyer, author, was born in 1830, in Pennsylvania. He is a prominent lawyer and historian of San Francisco. He is the author of Adventures of Captain Capen Adams; General Laws of California, commonly called Hittell's Digest; Codes and Statutes of California; and History of California.

Hizar, Julier Clyde

lawyer, was born Nov. 5, 1871, in Fort Ancient, Ohio.

He graduated from the National Normal university of Lebanon, Ohio, with the degrees of B. S. and A. B., and subsequently attended the Cincinnati Law school, and was admitted to the bar of California.

He has been city attorney of Coronado, Cal., and still holds that position.