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First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the State of Maine: 1861-1862
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Report On the Geology of Vermont: Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical, and Scenographical, Volume 1
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Charles Henry Hitchcock was an American geologist and educator. He served as an assistant state geologist of Vermont, state geologist of Maine and New Hampshire, and held the Hall Professorship of Geology and Mineralogy at Dartmouth College.
Background
Charles Henry Hitchcock was born on August 23, 1836 in Amherst, Massachusset, United States. He was the son of Edward and Orra (White) Hitchcock, and brother of the younger Edward Hitchcock. His father was professor of geology in Amherst College. As a child Charles is said to have taken a lively interest in his father's work and to have accompanied him on his geological excursions whenever feasible.
Education
Hitchcock was trained in the classical and preparatory course of Williston Seminary and graduated from Amherst College in 1856, before his twentieth birthday.
Following graduation he became assistant to his father on the geological survey of Vermont (1857-1861), and during the same period pursued theological studies at Yale for a year and at Andover Seminary for two years, with a view to entering the ministry.
During the year 1866-1867 he studied at the Royal School of Mines in London.
Career
In 1861 Hitchcock was appointed state geologist of Maine. From 1858 to 1866 he served also as curator of the museum at Amherst, and was lecturer on zoology, 1858-1864. He was non-resident lecturer for Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, from 1866 to 1870, and in the decade 1860-1870 served also in a private capacity as an expert for various mining interests in the Eastern states. During the year 1866-1867 he traveled in Europe, returning to receive the appointments of state geologist of New Hampshire (1868) and professor of geology and mineralogy at Dartmouth College. Facilities for detailed geological work in Maine were not such as to promote results of consequence, and it was not until the survey of New Hampshire was undertaken that Hitchcock had a reasonable opportunity to display his abilities as an administrator and geologist. This survey continued for ten years, or until 1878; and its results were given to the public--aside from the brief annual reports--in three quarto volumes, The Geology of New Hampshire (1874-1878). The glacial geology of the state naturally received much attention. For a part of each year from 1870 to 1896 Hitchcock was lecturer on geology at Mount Holyoke.
In 1908, after forty years at Dartmouth, he retired as professor emeritus and took up his residence in Honolulu, Hawaii, devoting his attention thenceforth mainly to volcanic problems. His last publication, Hawaii and its Volcanoes, a volume of 314 pages with fifty plates, was issued in 1909. He died in Honolulu ten years later, having nearly reached the age of eighty-three.
Hitchcock was the founder of the Geological Society of America, and in 1883 vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Connections
Hitchcock was married, June 19, 1862, to Martha Bliss Barrows of Andover, Massachussets, who died in February 1892, leaving him two sons and three daughters. On September 4, 1894, he married Charlotte Malvina Barrows, a sister of his first wife.