 1839 - 1912 (73 years)
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| Name |
Henry S. Hitchcock [1] |
| Born |
29 Jan 1839 |
Eaton township, Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A.  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
31 Mar 1912 |
Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota U.S.A. |
| Notes |
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+ Standard Certificate of Death for Physicians; Registered No. 1548; South Dakota Department of History, Division of Census and Vital Statistics. Document # 29782.
+ Information from Colleen (POWERS) MAHAN
+ Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co,OH- Vol 1-6
+ Portrait & Biographical Album of Jackson Co- Chapman Bros- 1890
+ The Hamlin Family - Gen. of James Hamlin of Barnstable, MA - p 694-5
+ http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sd/biography/memor99/hitchcock.txt (http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/sdfiles.htm)
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[From E. W. Powers March 7, 1950 for Ruth Hitchcock Bressler]
Henry was in the Civil War and when he came home his wife, Clifford, Clayton and Clarend were living down in Coss County just south of Van Buren County Michigan
During the Civil War served for the North.
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[riverrat1981.ged]
"...member 103rd OH Inf. Vols, enlisted 1862; discharged 1866; farmer; removed to Edwardsburg, MI in 1866; to Bloomingdale (MI) 1868; (Sophia) died near Jackson, MI July 2 1870; he remarried and moved to Dakota, 1883; postmaster, Albion, South Dakota..."
One reference gives birth as 19 Jan 1839
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[Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and
representative citizens of South Dakota...; Published by G. A. Ogle &
Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 954-956]
Henry S. Hitchcock Biography
HENRY S. HITCHCOCK, one of the first to settle in Richland township, is now one of the substantial agriculturists of that portion of Edmunds county. His success has been due to his own perseverance and good management, and his efforts have not been expended for his own good alone but for the upbuilding of the better interests of his community. He is one of the prominent citizens of that region, and takes an active part in matters pertaining to the growth of the thriving district where he chooses to make his home. He is an ex-soldier who may well be proud of his army record, and no soldier ever served his country with a more loyal heart or earnest effort. Mr. Hitchcock has a fine estate, and his home farm is the southeast quarter of section 22, in Richland township, Edmunds county. Here he is passing his declining years enjoying the peace and comforts of a pleasant home.
Our subject was born in Eaton township, Loraine county, Ohio, January 17, 1839, and was the eldest in a family of five children, two sons and three daughters, born to Mark S. and Polly (Morgan) Hitchcock. The
paternal grandfather of our subject, Manly Hitchcock, was of English descent, and the maternal grandfather, Ira Morgan, was a native of Connecticut, and both were by occupation farmers. The parents of our subject were married in Loraine county, Ohio, and the father was a farmer during the greater part of his life, but engaged in the hardware business during the last years of life at Jackson, Michigan.
Our subject was reared on a farm and had little school advantages, those early days affording the country pupil a limited education. Mr. Hitchcock engaged in farming in 1869 in Ohio and afterward went with his family to Bloomingdale, Michigan, and was a farmer there for sixteen years. The farm was well improved, consisted of fifty acres; a small stream running through the land afforded good water for stock,
and an orchard of one hundred and fifty trees with small fruits in abundance made a model farm, but sickness visited the family and three children and the wife our subject died while there and the health of
Mr. Hitchcock was failing. He went to Edmunds county, South Dakota, in 1882 and located on his present farm.
He erected a ten by twelve shanty and was his own housekeeper for two years, at the end of which time the family joined him in the new home. He had a small house erected, and a barn and granary and the
improvements on the property had already begun. When he located in Dakota Richland township was the extreme western limit of the surveyed land, and all supplies were hauled from Aberdeen, eighteen miles
distant. Our subject now possesses one hundred and sixty acres of land, and cultivates about one hundred and fifty acres. He engages mostly in raising small grains, but is interested to some extent in the raising of cattle and horses.
Mr. Hitchcock enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Third Ohio Infantry, July 22, 1862, and spent the winter of 1862 -63 in Frankfort, Kentucky, and the following summer went through Tennessee and Kentucky after Morgan's men. Many skirmishes and active duty kept them on the move through the summer of 1864, and the winter following our subject was taken ill with typhoid fever at Louisville, Kentucky. He was discharged early in 1865 and went back to old home.
Our subject was married in 1859 to Sophia Hamlin, a native of Dover, Ohio. Three sons and one daughter were born of this union. Mrs. Hitchcock died July 2, 1870. Our subject remarried, Miss Annie Graham
becoming his wife August 20, 1871. Mrs. Hitchcock is a native of Preble county, Ohio, and was born in 1847. Her grandfather, James Graham, was a native of Virginia. Her father, Joseph Graham, was a harness maker by occupation, and the mother died when Mrs. Hitchcock was but twelve years of age, after which the family was broken up and she was thrown on her own resources for a livelihood. She was reared in Morning Sun, Ohio, and there received her education. Two children, a son and a daughter, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, as follows: Fred S. and Ella C. Our subject has been called upon to fill various local offices, and has given his service freely, and for the good of all. He has been a member of the town board two years, of the school board nine years, and seven years has acted as assessor. He has been a delegate to many county conventions and advocates the principles of the Republican party.
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| Person ID |
I5497 |
Devin Timber | David Devin Pedigree |
| Last Modified |
30 Dec 2008 |
| Father |
Mark Sylvanus Hitchcock, b. 07 Feb 1821, Canandaigua, Ontario, New York U.S.A. , d. 18 Oct 1886, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan U.S.A. (Age 65 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Morgan, b. Abt 1817, Ohio U.S.A. , d. 27 May 1853, Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A. (Age 36 years) |
| Married |
05 Jun 1839 |
Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. [3] |
| Family ID |
F1694 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Sophia Amanda Hamlin, b. 18 Mar 1841, Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio U.S.A. , d. 30 Jun 1870, Bloomingdale Township, Van Buren, Michigan U.S.A. (Age 29 years) |
| Married |
20 Nov 1858 |
Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A. [3] |
| Notes |
- [riverrat1981.ged]
(The Hamlin Family Genealogy says that she and Henry S. were married in Laporte. OH??)
REF: The Hamlin Family - Gen. of James Hamlin of Barnstable, MA - p 694-5
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| Children |
| | 1. Clifford Hitchcock, b. 14 Oct 1860, Eaton, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A. |
| | 2. Clayton Hitchcock |
| + | 3. Clarence Wallace Hitchcock, b. 05 Aug 1865, Bulamont, Michigan U.S.A. , d. 21 Jun 1936, Lewistown, Fergus, Montana U.S.A. (Age 70 years) |
| | 4. Mary Hitchcock, b. 1869, Aberdeen, Edmonds, South Dakota U.S.A. |
| | 5. Henry Clayton Hitchcock, b. 10 Sep 1862, Henry County, Ohio U.S.A. , d. 20 Mar 1877, Bloomingdale Township, Van Buren, Michigan U.S.A. (Age 14 years) |
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| Last Modified |
30 Dec 2008 |
| Family ID |
F1341 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Annie Graham, b. 1847, Preble County, Ohio U.S.A. |
| Married |
20 Aug 1871 |
Van Buren, Michigan U.S.A. [4] |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
2 Aug 2010 |
| Family ID |
F1342 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S64099] Hitchcock, Henry S.: Certificate of Death, 29782.
DOB, POB, father's name, age, DOD, POD
- [S62145] Memorial and Biographical Record: An Illustrated Compendium, (G.A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1899), 954-956.
- [S65960] Pat Miller.
Date of Import: 21 Oct 2005
- [S65960] Pat Miller, riverrat1981.ged imported 20051021.
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