Hitz, Benjamin

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Dates:
Active 1913
Active 1949

Biographical notes:

Benjamin D. Hitz married Elizabeth Holliday and they had two children, Benjamin and Evaline. Mr. Hitz served as an officer in France in World War I. After the war, he returned to the Midwest where he was involved in many intellectual and charitable organizations including his work with the Willa Cather Papers at the Newberry Library, Chicago and the Library Committee for the Indiana Historical Society.

From the description of Hitz family papers, 1917-1951. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 707336117

Indiana collector of books and manuscripts, particularly of explorations of the Middle West and the works of Mary Webb and Willa Cather.

From the description of Benjamin D. Hitz - Willa Cather papers, 1913-1949. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 45855202

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Subjects:

  • Booksellers and bookselling
  • Novelists, American
  • Women authors, American
  • Book collectors
  • Manuscripts, American
  • World War, 1914-1918

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Places:

  • United States (as recorded)
  • Indiana (as recorded)

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