Henry Hitchcock (Missouri lawyer)

Born in Spring Hill, near Mobile, Alabama,[1] he was the great-grandson of Ethan Allen.

His brother, Ethan Hitchcock, was Secretary of the Interior under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

[1] He was active in opposing slavery, and took part in the provisional Missouri state government during the Civil War.

Excerpts from Hitchcock's letters and diaries of this period were published in 1927 by Yale University Press[2] and are historically significant.

[4] In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison considered appointing him to the United States Supreme Court, but chose David J.