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    Mark Sylvanus Hitchcock

    Male 1821 - 1886  (65 years)


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    • Name Mark Sylvanus Hitchcock  [1, 2, 3, 4
      Born 07 Feb 1821  Canandaigua, Ontario, New York U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
      Gender Male 
      Died 18 Oct 1886  Jackson, Jackson, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
      Buried Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
      Hitchcock Family Monument
      Hitchcock Family Monument
      Mark S. Hitchcock marker
      Mark S. Hitchcock marker
      Notes 
      • - - - - - Sources - - - - -
        + Hitchcock Genealogy- 1894- p 170
        + History of Jackson Co (MI)- p ?
        + Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co,OH- Vol 1-6. p ?
        + Census records- 1850,60 OH; 1870,80 MI
        + Jackson City directories
        + Death certificate
        + Descendants of Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, L.I.; S.C & R.B.Brush; 1982; page 190.

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        [Is this Mark and Polly?]
        1840 Ohio: Hitchcock, Marcus
        Township: Munson
        County: Geauga
        State: Ohio
        Year: 1840
        Page: 163
        1 male - (20-30) and 1 female - (20-30)

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        [From Michigan Historical Society Records, Vol. 11 page 17 (found on Ancestry.com 09.Dec.2005)]
        After a long illness, Mark S. Hitchcock died at his residence, No. 506 West Main street, Oct. 18, 1886, in the 66th year of his age. Some weeks ago Mr. Hitchcock was stricken with typhoid fever, but had nearly recovered, when a severe cold developed a chronic urinary trouble which ended his life.

        Mark S. Hitchcock was born in Ontario county, New York, in 1821, his parents, Manly and Chloe Hitchcock, being natives of Waterbury, Conn. They moved to Lorain county, Ohio, in 1824, and lived in Cleveland until their death. While a youth Mark Hitchcock worked on a farm summers and attended district school winters until he married Miss Polly Morgan, at the age of twenty years, and then engaged in buying and shipping live stock for several years, after which he embarked in the grocery business, which he followed in connection with farming until 1864, when he was elected sheriff of Lorain county and held the office for four years. He removed to Jackson county in 1868 and purchased the farm three miles north of this city, which he owned until last year, when he sold it to Charles R. Durand, and bought the store, No. 188, in the Durand block. In 1879 he bought the hardware stock of Rice & McConnel in this city and managed it one year in partnership with his son-in-law, George W. Fifield, who then sold out and a new firm was organized January 1, 1880, with M. S. Hitchcock, Reuben E. Clark and Charles S. Hitchcock as partners. Three years later Mr. Hitchcock sold his interest in the business and the firm became Clark, Helmer & Houk, who conducted the business a years and then transferred it back to M. S. Hitchcock & Co., the present firm. In 1880 Mr. Hitchcock purchased an interest in the Eureka Coal Co. and was elected superintendent and treasurer the same year.

        Mr. Hitchcock’s first wife died in May, 1854, leaving five children, and two years later he married Mary A. Bush, of Lorain, Ohio, who survives him.

        During his illness all of Mr. Hitchcock’s children were at his bedside, but, with the belief that he was recovering, his son Henry returned to his home in Nebraska some days ago, and his daughter, Mrs. Henry Kennedy, returned to her home at Tougaloo, Mississippi. The other children are Wallace W. Hitchcock, grocer, of 504 North Blackstone street; Mrs. George W. Fifield, 420 Williams street; Mrs. David Town, of Blackman; Charles S. Hitchcock, [p.69] No. 240 West Main Street, and Miss Clara, who resides with her parents.

        Mr. Hitchcock was a prominent and active member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, a man of good business ability and highly esteemed by a very wide circle of friends.

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        [From a letter written by E. W. Powers March 7 1950 for Ruth Hitchcock Bressler]
        Mark Hitchcok was sheriff in Elyria Ohio. Later he moved to Jackson Michigan.

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        [riverrat1981.ged]
        Mark came to OH with his parents abt 1824; worked on the family farm until he was 20, when he engaged in buying and shipping livestock for several years; then was in the grocery and provision business and farming until 1864, when he became Sheriff of Lorain Co and served four years in this office. In 1868,
        he moved his family to a farm 3 miles north of Jackson, MI. He purchased a hardware store (Rice & McConnell) in 1879 and settled in the city. His son-in-law, George Fifield, was his partner for a year; he ran the store for a year by himself and Jan 1, 1880, took his son, Charles S, and Rueben E. Clark as
        partners, each owning one-third interest.
        Mark purchased an interest in the Eureka coal mine and was elected Supt. and Treasurer in Dec 1880. He also served as a Justice of Blackman Twp for some years. He and Mary were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
      • Find-A-Grave Memorial Number: 23909394
      Person ID I5461  Devin Timber | David Devin Pedigree
      Last Modified 11 Jun 2012 

      Father Manley Hitchcock,   b. 23 Dec 1783, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1852, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
      Mother Chloe Adams,   b. 04 Feb 1785, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Sep 1873, Bloomingdale Township, Van Buren, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
      Married abt.1824  [1
      Family ID F1697  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 1 Mary Morgan,   b. Abt 1817, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1853, Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years) 
      Married 05 Jun 1839  Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
      Children 
      +1. Henry S. Hitchcock,   b. 29 Jan 1839, Eaton township, Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Mar 1912, Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
       2. Wallace W. Hitchcock,   b. 19 Apr 1842, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Dec 1909, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
       3. Fidelia Louisa Hitchcock,   b. 19 Jun 1845, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1906  (Age 60 years)
       4. Chloe Janette Hitchcock,   b. 25 Jan 1847, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1916, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
       5. Henrietta Irene Hitchcock,   b. 23 May 1851, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1940, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
      Last Modified 30 Jan 2010 
      Family ID F1694  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 2 Mary Adeline Brush,   b. 20 Jul 1831, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Nov 1916, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
      Married 08 Jun 1856  Eaton Township, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
      Children 
       1. Charles S. Hitchcock,   b. 27 Jan 1858, Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Mar 1908, White Pigeon, St. Joseph, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years)
       2. Clara Bertha Hitchcock,   b. 05 Mar 1867, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 09 Apr 1958, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years)
      Last Modified 2 Jul 2010 
      Family ID F1695  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Sources 
      1. [S04621] Chart by Colleen Powers Mahon.

      2. [S64099] Hitchcock, Henry S.: Certificate of Death, 29782.
        Middle initial and birthplace of Mark Hitchcock.

      3. [S64291] e-familytree.net, F37804.htm viewed 12.Dec.2005.
        full middle name

      4. [S65960] Pat Miller, Imported 21.Oct.2005.

      5. [S65960] Pat Miller.
        Date of Import: 21 Oct 2005

      6. [S64418] Michigan Historical Society Records, Vol. 11 page 17.