Background
Alfred Marshall Hitchcock was born on May 7, 1868 in Troy, New York, United States. He was a son of Rufus Clark and Louisa (St. John) Hitchcock. He had two brothers.
Alfred Marshall Hitchcock was born on May 7, 1868 in Troy, New York, United States. He was a son of Rufus Clark and Louisa (St. John) Hitchcock. He had two brothers.
In 1890 Alfred Marshall Hitchcock graduated from Williams College and Dartmouth College in 1896.
Alfred Marshall Hitchcock was a teacher and head of the department of English at Hartford Public School. He was an author of several textbooks on the study of English as well as other works. Hitchcock edited an edition of Washington Irving's The Alhambra (1904), then wrote A Practice-book in English Composition (1906), Words and Sentences, including a review of grammar (1908), Theme-book in English Composition (1910), Rhetoric and the Study of Literature (1913), New Practice-book in English Composition (1914), Composition and Rhetoric (1917), Over Japan Way (1917), Junior English Book (1920), High School English Book (1920), Study Plans for Novels Read in High Schools (1927), Bread Loaf Talks on Teaching Composition (1927), A New England Boyhood (1934) and Lucy, Perhaps (1935, illustrated by daughter Helen).
Alfred Marshall Hitchock was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
On 17 July 1900 Arthur Marshall Hitchock married Harriet May Thompson. They had four children: Helen Marshall (Hitchcock) Bjorvand, Harold Bradford Hitchcock, Alfred Newell Hitchcock and Margaret Louise Hitchcock.