Edward and Mary Judson Hitchcock Family Papers 1840-1962 1850-1911

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Edward and Mary Judson Hitchcock Family Papers 1840-1962 1850-1911

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Papers documenting the professional activities and personal life of Edward "Doc" Hitchcock, Mary Judson Hitchcock and the Hitchcock and Judson families. "Doc" Hitchcock's papers include letters, published and unpublished writings, travel diaries, and manuscript and printed music used by Hitchcock while playing the cello. They reflect his roles and interests as an educator in physical education and hygiene, a faculty member, physician and family man. Papers of his wife, Mary Judson Hitchcock, include letters, legal records and photographs documenting her roles as wife, mother, member of the College and town community, and genealogist. Also included are letters and other personal papers of the Hitchcocks' children Edward, Caroline, Lucy, Jane, John and Albert, as well as genealogical information on the Hitchcock and Judson families. The papers include letters written to Mary W. Bryan Hitchcock in 1898 by her husband John Sawyer Hitchcock (AC 1889) and brother-in-law Albert Hitchcock while serving in Cuba during the Spanish American War, where they contracted malaria.

25 archives boxes, 4 half archives boxes, 3 flat boxes, 3 oversize flat boxes, 2 oversize archives boxes, map case drawer; (25 linear ft.)

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Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Hitchcock, Jane, 1863-1939

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Hitchcock family.

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Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911

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Physician and faculty member, Amherst College. From the description of Papers, 1852-1855, Amherst, Mass. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35091769 Edward "Doc" Hitchcock, eldest son of geologist and Amherst College President Edward Hitchcock and artist Orra White Hitchcock, graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1849 and received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Hitchcock was Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education at Amherst College, 1861-1911, college physici...

Amherst College. Class of 1889. Hitchcock.

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Hitchcock, Caroline, 1857-1944

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Judson family.

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Hitchcock, John S., 1869-1928

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Hitchcock, Edward, 1854-

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Amherst College. Class of 1849. Hitchcock.

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Hitchcock, Edward, Mrs., 1831-

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Hitchcock, Lucy, 1861-1940

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Hitchcock, Albert White, 1874-

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