Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864
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Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864
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Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864
Hitchcock, Edward
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Geologist and college president, of Amherst, Mass.
American geologist; president of Amherst College.
Edward Hitchcock was an eminent 19th-century scientist, minister and educator; principal of Deerfield Academy and Congregational minister in Conway, Mass.; variously professor of Chemistry, Natural History, Natural Theology and Geology at Amherst College, 1826-1864, and third president, 1845-1854. Appointed State Geologist of Massachusetts, 1830; Geologist of the first district of New York, 1836; and Geologist of Vermont, 1857. Orra White Hitchcock, whom he married in 1821, was a scholar and artist who accompanied her husband on many of his scientific expeditions and illustrated much of his work. Six children: Mary, Edward (AC 1849), Catharine Hitchcock Storrs, Jane Hitchcock Putnam, Charles (AC 1856), and Emily Hitchcock Terry.
Parker Cleaveland worked as a mineralogist and geologist.
Orra White Hitchcock, wife of geologist and Amherst College president Edward Hitchcock, whom she married in 1821, was a scholar and artist who accompanied her husband on many of his scientific expeditions and illustrated much of his work. They had six children: Mary, Edward (AC 1849), Catharine Hitchcock Storrs, Jane Hitchcock Putnam, Charles (AC 1856), and Emily Hitchcock Terry.
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