Background
Hitchcock, Romyn was born on December 1, 1851 in Saint Louis. Son of Alonzo and Hannah Ethloine (Hallenbeck) Hitchcock.
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Romyn Hitchcock
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Student Cornell, 1868-1871, Columbia School of Mines, 1872.
Career
Assistant in chemistry, Lehigh University, 1873-1875. Professor of chemistry, medical college, Chicago, 1876-1877. Professor Koto Chiu Gakko, Osaka, Japan, 1887-1889.
Curator National Museum, Washington, 1884-1899.
Consulting chemist and technologist, since 1899. Editorial staff American Chemist, 1872-1876.
Editor public American Quarterly Mircroscopical Journal, 1878-1879, American Monthly Microscopical Journal, 1880-1887. Judge of awards London Fisheries Exhibition for United States committee, 1883.
On United States Eclipse expedition to Japan in charge of photographic work, 1887.
United States commissioner to China for Chicago Exposition, 1890-1892. Expert on Pennsylvania commission to arrange state mining exhibit, and judge awards Department of Manufacturers, same, 1893. Judge of awards, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Student of economic effects of prevailing methods of corporate organization.
Lecturer on promotion methods and capitalization and taxation of resources.
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Membership
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Chemical Society, Cornell Chapter Delta Upsilon.
Connections
Married Emma Louise Bingham of Ithaca, New York, April.
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American