(Clockwise
from lower left) Cleveland Storrs, Margaret
Randolph Hitchcock Emerson,
Dr. Edward Hitchcock, Jr., Dr.
Charles H. Hitchcock, Charles Bigelow Storrs,
Caroline Judson Hitchcock, Pauline
Hitchcock Klauss, Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock
Listed below are three generations of Hitchcocks
including Edward and Orra's eight children, twenty
grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. Obituaries
and other related documents may be seen by clicking on
highlighted names.
See also The Hitchcock
Progeny: Three Generations and The Hitchcock
Legacy Lives On.
Click
here to watch a 17-minute video, "The
Descendants of Edward and Orra White
Hitchcock," on YouTube.
CHILDREN OF
EDWARD AND ORRA WHITE HITCHCOCK
1. EDWARD
HITCHCOCK (b 1822, d 1824): Edward, the
Hitchcock's first child, lived all his short life in
Conway, Massachusetts. He died on March 15, 1824, at
22 months of age.
2. MARY
HITCHCOCK (b 1824, d 1899): Mary attended
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two years. Some
time after the deaths of her parents, she moved to
Hanover, New Hampshire, and lived the remainder of
her life with her brother Charles and family.
3. CATHARINE
HITCHCOCK (b 1826, d 1895): After attending
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two years,
Catherine married Rev. Henry M.
Storrs (b 1827, d 1894) in 1852. The couple
lived for a time in Cincinnati, Ohio, then in
Brooklyn, New York, then in Orange, New Jersey. They
had four children, Mary (9), Charles (10),
Katharine (11),
and Richard
(12).
4. DR.
EDWARD HITCHCOCK, JR. (b 1828, d 1911): Upon
graduation from Amherst College, Edward, Jr.,
attended Harvard Medical School. He married Mary L.
Judson (b 1831, d 1918) in 1853. The couple lived at
Williston Seminary in Easthampton where Edward
taught until he was appointed professor of Hygiene
and Physical Education at Amherst College in 1862.
He was a pioneer in the field of college physical
education. The couple lived in Amherst for the
remainder of their lives and had ten children, Edward (13), Caroline (14), Charles (15), Lucy (16), Jane (17), Henry (18), Ruth (19), John (20), Lewis (21), and Albert (22).
5. Unnamed child (b 1832, d
1832)
6. JANE ELIZABETH HITCHCOCK (b
1833, d 1894): After completing two years at
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Jane married educator
Granville
Putnam (b 1835, d 1900) in 1864. The couple
lived in Boston until about 1880, then moved to West
Newton, Massachusetts. They had no children. Jane
was active in a number of charitable
organizations.
7. DR.
CHARLES HENRY HITCHCOCK (b 1836, d 1919):
Charles graduated from Amherst College in 1856,
earned an M.A. there in 1858, and married Martha
Barrows (b 1837, d 1892) in 1862. The couple
lived in Andover, Massachusetts, for several years,
then moved to Hanover, New Hampshire, where Charles
was professor of geology until his retirement in
1908. He was a pioneer in the fields of New England
regional and glacial geology. The couple had five
children: Arthur
(23), Maria
(24), Edward
(25), Martha
(26), and Alleine
(27). In 1894, after the death of his first
wife, Charles married her sister, Charlotte
Barrows (b 1840, d 1922). The couple moved to
Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1908 and lived there for the
remainder of their
lives.
8. EMILY
HITCHCOCK (b 1838, d 1921): Emily attended
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for three years. After
the deaths of her parents, she attended Cooper Union
in New York City. She married Rev.
Cassius M. Terry (b 1845, d 1881) in 1870. The
couple moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where their
one child, Edward
(28), was born in 1872 and died a few months
later. Cassius died in 1881, after which Emily moved
back to Massachusetts. She was an accomplished
botanical artist and illustrator and worked at Smith
College for the last thirty years of her life.
Photograph courtesy of Amherst College Archives and
Special Collections.
GRANDCHILDREN OF EDWARD AND
ORRA WHITE HITCHCOCK
9. MARY STORRS (b 1857, d 1857)
10. CHARLES
BIGELOW STORRS (b 1859, d 1931): Charles
attended Yale, studied law at Columbia, then worked
as an attorney, a judge, and for a number of years
as a member of the New Jersey legislature. He
married Gertrude Maria Cleveland (b 1864, d 1940) in
1897. The couple lived most of their married life in
Orange, New Jersey. They had one child, Cleveland (29).
11. KATHARINE
STORRS (b 1862, d 1934): Katharine lived most
of her adult life in Orange, New Jersey, where she
was active in church and charitable work.
12. RICHARD
SALTER STORRS (b 1865, d 1939): Richard
attended Yale, then worked as an investment broker
and banker. He married Anna Kingsbury Simpson (b
1869, d 1921) in 1907 and lived in Orange, New
Jersey. They had one child, Richard, Jr.
(30).
13. DR.
EDWARD HITCHCOCK (b 1854, d 1925): Edward
earned both B.A. and M.A. degrees from Amherst
College, then went on to study medicine at Dartmouth
College. He practiced in Amherst, then taught at
Amherst College, Massachusetts Agricultural College,
and Cornell University. He married Ida Isabelle
Bering (b 1857, d 1884) in 1882. They had one child,
Edward B. (31).
After Ida's death, Edward married journalist Sarah
D. Fuertes (b 1868, d 1961) in 1888. They had one
child, Katharine (32).
14. CAROLINE
JUDSON HITCHCOCK (b 1857, d 1944): Caroline
graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in
1880, and taught chemistry, biology, and physics for
forty years, first in Amherst, Massachusetts, then
in Meriden, Connecticut. She published many articles
in scientific journals.
15. CHARLES NICHOLS HITCHCOCK (b
1859, d 1938): Charles worked as a clerk,
bookkeeper, and tool shop mechanic. He married
Carrie Malvina Goodnow (b 1861, d 1904) in 1887.
After the death of his wife, Charles lived for a
time with his parents in Amherst, then in Athol,
Massachusetts.
16. LUCY CLARK
HITCHCOCK( b 1861, d 1940): Lucy studied art
at Cooper Union in New York City in 1883, then
taught in New York, Amherst, and in the art
department at Smith College.
17. JANE
ELIZABETH HITCHCOCK (b 1863, d 1939): Jane
attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and Cornell
University before enrolling at the New York Hospital
Training School for Nurses where she completed her
studies in 1891. For more than thirty years she was
employed as a public health nurse and nurse
supervisor at the New York Nurses' Settlement. She
became a nationally-known leader in the field of
public health nurse education, taught in nurse
training programs, and wrote many articles on
nursing education for professional journals.
18. HENRY JUDSON HITCHCOCK (b
1865, d 1867)
19. RUTH SHERMAN HITCHCOCK (b
1868, d 1868)
20. DR.
JOHN SAWYER HITCHCOCK (b 1869, d 1928): John
was a medical doctor who at one time was Calvin
Coolidge's personal physician. He served in the
medical corps during the Spanish-American War and
was head of the Massachusetts State Board of Health
Division of Communicable Diseases during the
influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. He married Mary
Waters Bryan (b 1870, d 1934) in 1898. The couple
lived in Northampton, Massachusetts, where they
raised two children, Margaret
R. (33) and John
(34).
21. LEWIS HENRY HITCHCOCK (b
1871, d 1873)
22. ALBERT
WHITE HITCHCOCK (b 1874, d 1942): An 1898
graduate of MIT, Albert served in Cuba during the
Spanish American War, then worked as an engineer for
Western Electric. He married Charlotte Frelinghuysen
Emerson (b 1874, d 1957) in 1903. They lived for a
time in Holland, Massachusetts. They adopted two
children, Harold
(35) and Pauline
(36).
23. ARTHUR
CHARLES HITCHCOCK (b 1863, d 1864)
24. MARIA
PORTER HITCHCOCK (b 1867, d 1895): Maria
attended Oberlin College preparatory school in
1883-4 and graduated from Abbot Academy in Andover,
Mass., in 1886. She married Frederick
J. Allen (b 1864, d 1927) in 1893. They had
two children, Maria
(37), and Charles
(38). After Maria's death in 1895, Frederick
married Wilhelmina Pingree (b 1870, d 1944). The
couple had three children, Wilhelmina F. , Frederick
C. , and Theodora B. Photograph courtesy of
Dartmouth College Library.
25. EDWARD
WHITE HITCHCOCK (b 1870, d 1876): Edward died
of scarlet fever at the age of 5 years 10 months.
26. MARTHA
BARROWS HITCHCOCK (b 1871, d 1928): Martha
graduated from Miss Wheelock's School in Boston in
1898. She taught for a time in Hanover, New
Hampshire, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. She moved to
Honolulu, Hawaii, in about 1900, studied at the
College of Hawaii, and taught in Honolulu.
Photograph courtesy of Dartmouth College Library.
27.
ALLEINE LEE HITCHCOCK (b 1873, d 1924):
Alleine graduated from Abbot Academy in Andover in
1893 and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York,
in 1903. She taught kindergarten in Brooklyn,
Hanover, New Hampshire, and Honolulu, Hawaii. In
about 1920 she and her sister Martha moved to Palm
Springs, California. After Alleine's death, Martha
endowed a library to be known as Alleine's Library,
the first public library in Palm Springs. Photograph
courtesy of Archives and Special Collections,
Phillips
Academy.
28. EDWARD SWEET TERRY (b 1872,
d 1872): Edward was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in
February, 1872, and died there at the age of five
months.
GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF EDWARD
AND ORRA WHITE HITCHCOCK
29. CLEVELAND
HITCHCOCK STORRS (b 1900, d 1950): Cleveland
graduated from Yale in 1923. He served in the U. S.
Army in both World Wars, then worked as an
investment broker and corporate executive. He
married Mildred McKinley (b 1903, d 1974) in 1923.
The couple had one child, Katharine Hitchcock Storrs
(b 1921, d 2009) before they divorced. He later
married Ruth Mattison (b 1920, d 1964) and the
couple had one son, Cleveland.
30. RICHARD
SALTER STORRS, JR. (b 1911, d 1994): Richard
graduated from Yale in 1932, earned a law degree
from Harvard in 1935, and worked as an attorney for
the firm of Sullivan and Cromwell for over 40 years.
He married Frances Rousmaniere (b 1912, d 1997); the
couple had six children.
31. EDWARD
BERING HITCHCOCK (b 1884, d 1966): Edward was
an author, journalist, and foreign correspondent for
the Chicago Daily News and the Christian Science
Monitor. He married opera singer Myrna D.
Sharlow (b 1893, d 1952) in 1921. They had one
child, Edward B., Jr. , (b 1924, d 2016) who
graduated from Amherst College in 1949.
32. KATHARINE
HITCHCOCK (b 1890, d 1983): Katharine
graduated from Pratt Insitute in New York in 1911,
then married Paul W. Cloud (b 1895, d 1969).
The couple lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, then in
Newton, Massachusetts. They had three children. In
1944, Katharine married Raymond D. Thompson (b 1916,
d 1957).
33. MARGARET
RANDOLPH HITCHCOCK (b 1899, d 1985): Margaret
graduated from Smith College in 1922, earned an MA
in geology from Columbia in 1925, then taught
geology and chemistry for many years. Later in life
she worked as a reference librarian at Amherst
College and curator of the collections of her
grandfather, Dr. Edward Hitchcock. She
married Henry Seelye Emerson (b 1907, d 1946)
in 1941. They had one adopted child, John H.
Emerson.
34. JOHN
HITCHCOCK (b 1904, d 1949): John attended
Amherst College for several years, earned a degree
in engineering from the University of Virginia in
1931, then worked as a civil engineer with the
National Park Service. He married Rose Tarner King
(b 1910, d 1971) in 1934. The couple lived in
Virginia for a while before moving to New Mexico in
the 1940s.
35. HAROLD
FAULKNER HITCHCOCK (b 1913, d 1989): Harold
grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, and worked at
Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford. He
married Seville J. Miller (b 1915, d 2001) in 1938.
The couple lived in Holland, Massachusetts, and had
four children.
36. PAULINE B. HITCHCOCK (b
1904, d 1981): Pauline grew up in Hartford,
Connecticut. and attended Smith College before
pursuing a career as a social worker. She married
Emil Klauss (b 1902, d 1993) in 1934 and the couple
lived for a time in Ohio. They had three
children.
37.
MARIA C.
ALLEN (b 1894, d 1973): Maria's birth name
was Charlotte Lee; her name was changed in
1899 to Maria in honor of her mother.
She graduated from Boston University in 1917, then
taught school.
She was married twice, first to Herbert M.
Purinton in about 1927, then to Clarence A.
Storer (b 1887, d 1953), in 1937. The Storers
lived in Melrose, Massachusetts, and in
Cornish, Maine.
38. CHARLES
HITCHCOCK ALLEN (b 1895, d 1979): Charles
graduated from Boston University in 1919 and
received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1924. He was a
well known and highly respected chemist who
published many scientific papers in his lifetime,
taught at B.U., Tufts, and McGill University, and
worked for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. He
married Alberta Currie (b 1895, d 1893) in 1949. The
couple had two children.
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