Peter Hitchcock, a native of Cheshire, Conn., was a member of the US Congress and Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.

In the autumn of 1835 he entered Lane Theological Seminary, then under the care of Dr. Lyman Beecher, where he spent two years.

Besides his duties of President, he was the College Pastor, and instructed in the department of Natural Theology and the Evidences of Christianity.

For three years longer he continued at the head of the college, and then insisted on retiring, retaining only the duties of pastor and professor.

[2] Hitchcock died at Hudson, after two weeks' illness, of typhoid fever, July 6, 1873, in the sixtieth year of his age.

Two of their sons were graduates of Western Reserve College in 1859; the elder of whom was a clergyman, and the younger was killed at the battle of Stone River, in Tennessee, December 31, 1862.