The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-10
ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK DEAD
Was a Great Grandson of the Liberia
tor of the Hampshire Grants

Washington, April ETHAN Allen
Hitchcock, secretary of the interior,
under President Mckinley and Roose-
welt, died here today from COM
plication of diseases. He had been
critically i'll for several days. He was
IA years old. Hitchcock's prosecu-
ton of the land fraud cases in the
West was one of most answering
and relentless inquisitions in the his
tory of government prosecution.
Mr.. Hitchcock's body will be taken
tomorrow to st. Louis, where the
funeral will be held Monday, burial
being at a cemetery there.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, great
grandson of Ethan Allen of Vermont
was born in Mobile, Ala, September
10. 1885 He lived a year at New
Orleans. and then removed to Nash
Vile. Tenn, where heattended private
schools completing his course of study
in 1855 at the military academy in
New Haven, Conn. Rejoining his
family. who were then living at St.
Louis, Mo, he engaged in mercantile
business until 1860, when he went to
China to enter the commission house
of ELEPHANT & Co. of which firm he
was made partner in 1866. he re-
tired from business in 1872 and passed
two wears in Europe. Returning to
the United States in 1874, he was en-
gagged as president of several manu-
featuring, mining, and railway com
panies, until he was appointed,
August 16, 1897, envoy ext aordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Rus
STA. He reached his post in Deem
Der of that year and February IL,
1898. was made ambassador eXtraor-
binary and minister plenipotentiary at
ST. Petersburg. where he discharged
the duties of his office as the hrst
American ambassador accredited to the
Russian Court until he left for home
to assume, February 20. 1899, the du-
ties of secretary of the interior, FOR
which Office he was nominated by the
President and confirmed by the SEN
ate the same day, December I'll, 1898
Secretary Hitchcock retired two or
three years ago from Roosevelts cab
met. His grandmother was daugh-
ter of Ethan Allen.
Secretary Hitchcock represented
President Roosevelt at the dedication
of the Ethan Allen Memorial tower
at Burlington.
Mr.. Hitchcock was a great grandson
of the hero of Ticonderoga. His
grandfather, Judge Samuel Hitchcock
married Lucy Caroline, the second
daughter of Gen Ethan Allen, their
marriage being the first one recorded
in the town records of Burlington.
Judge Hitchcock was an eminent Yer
monies represented Burlington FIVE
Lot 100
and 1898, drafted the charter of the
University of Vermont; was one of
its, first board of trustees and its first
secretary; was attorney general or
Vermont, 1908; and in the latter
year was appointed United States
Judge for the district of Vermont,
which Office he held until his death in
1918. The house in which he lived
and died is still standing and in good
condition on the southwest corner OF
Main and Pine streets, in this city. In
this house his widow also died, after
her return from Alabama. Their
tombstones are in the Elmwood GEM
etery.
Henry Hitchcock married Miss Err
win. daughter of a Tennessee planter,
Ethan Allen Hitchcock their second
son, was born in Mobile in 1895. AT
ter his fathers death in 1889 his
mother returned to her old home in
Tennessee with her children. Ethan
Allen Hitchcock was educated in a
private school in Nashville, Tenn,
completing his course in a military
academy in New Haven In 1855. He
received the degree of doctor of laws
from the University of Missouri In
1902. Harvard in 1906 and Washing
ton University, st. Louis in 1907.