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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           HORACE R. HITCHCOCK, M.D., physician and surgeon, practicing at
        Sand Beach, was born March 9, 1845, in Martinsburg Township, Lewis
        Co., N.Y.  His father, HENRY HITCHCOCK, was born in 1804, in Lewis
        County.  His mother, CLARISSA M. (HUBBARD) HITCHCOCK, was born in
        Port Leyden Township, Lewis Co., N.Y., in 1819, and is now living
        at Lowville, Lewis Co., N.Y.
           DR. HITCHCOCK is the second of four children born to his
        parents.  He came to Hillsdale, Mich., in 1865, and engaged as a
        clerk in a general mercantile establishment. After a short time he
        entered into a partnership for the prosecution of a mercantile
        enterprise with Messrs. ASHBAUGHS, under the firm style of ASHBAUGH
        & HITCHCOCK. Two years thereafter they dissolved partnership by
        mutual consent, and in the fall of 1872 he entered the office of W.
        R. DITMARS, M. D., at North Adams, Hillsdale County, where he read
        medicine for 18 months. He then came to Howell, Mich., in 1873,
        where he was employed as a clerk for three years. Meanwhile he
        studied medicine, as opportunity presented itself. In the fall of
        1874, he entered the Medical Department of the University of
        Mighigan, at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in the spring of
        1878. He makes a specialty of diseases of the eye and ear. After
        receiving his credentials, Dr. Hitchcock opened an office at
        Howell, where he practiced his profession six years, coming thence
        in March, 1884, to Sand Beach, and has already established a fine
        and lucrative practice.
           DR. HITCHCOCK is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is a
        Quaker by birth and descent, and adheres to the general tenets of
        the Society of Friends. While in Howell he officiated four years in
        the village and township as Health Officer. In 1878 he represented
        his class at its Alumni meeting, and was the Vice-President.
           His first marriage occurred June 14, 1865, at Lowville, Lewis
        Co., N.Y., to ALVINA F. PUTNAM, a native of Jefferson Co., N.Y.
        Two children were born of this union, in Howell, Mich.: HORACE H.,
        Aug. 25, 1876; and THOMAS F., May 28, 1880.  DR. HITCHCOCK was a
        second time married in Milford, Oakland Co., Mich., July 1, 1883,
        to CORDELIA F. ALLISON, who was born in Brighton, Livingston Co.,
        Mich.
           DR. HITCHCOCK enlisted in the United States service Jan. 28,
        1865. He enrolled at Lowville, in Co. H, First Regiment Frontier
        Cavalry, under Capt. H. E. TURNER. The command was sent to
        Sackett's Harbor, Jefferson Co., N.Y., where it was placed on
        patrol duty to guard the frontier coasts of Lake Ontario and the
        River St. Lawrence. He was discharged as Corporal, at Sackett's
        Harbor, July 7, 1865.

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