[1] While attending Rutgers, he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and the Cap and Skull Secret Honor Society.

[2][3] He also played at the right tackle and right end positions for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team in 1902 and 1903.

[9] In a draft registration card completed in 1918, Hitchner indicated that he was living in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, and was employed by Westinghouse in Wilkes-Barre.

[11] In 1919, Hitchner became the manager of the Westinghouse's mining section of the Industrial Sales Department in East Pittsburgh.

[15] At the time of the 1930 United States Census, he was living in South Pasadena, California with his wife and two daughters.