(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.
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 the Boston area for
the remainder of their lives. They had no
children.
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).
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 two adopted children, Harold (35) and Pauline
(36).
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.