Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (August 15, 1817 – June 16, 1887) was a United States Congregationalist clergyman.

US Navy, who was married to the author and explorer, Mary Evelyn Hitchcock.

[3] Among his works are: William Jewett Tucker gave him the following testimonial: "Of the men with whom I came into professional as well as personal relation, no one awakened or exerted so great an influence over me as Roswell D. Hitchcock...Dr. Hitchcock was a man of wide and genuine learning, but still more remarkable for his mental and spiritual insight.

It was to me of great significance in the following years that this intimacy of personal friendship was in no sense dependent on frequent contact.

The letters which came to me at Andover until his death bore the marks of the same rare and quickening friendship.