Ethan Allen Hitchcock (September 19, 1835 – April 9, 1909) served under
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Business career
Hitchcock was born on September 19, 1835, in
Mobile, Alabama, the son of
Henry Hitchcock
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(1791–1839), a
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on the
Alabama Supreme Court, and Anne Erwin Hitchcock. He was the brother of
Henry Hitchcock
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, nephew of Major General
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, grandson of Judge
Samuel Hitchcock
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, and great-grandson of
Ethan Allen.
He was in mercantile business at
Saint Louis, Missouri, 1855–60, then went to
China to enter a commission house, of which firm he became a partner in 1866. He was married to Margaret Dwight Collier on March 20, 1869. Ethan and Margaret Hitchcock had three daughters, Sarah, Anne and Margaret Hitchcock.
In 1872 he retired from business, in 1874 returned to the United States, and in 1874-97 was president of several manufacturing, mining and railway companies.
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He was a member of the Missouri Society of the ]Sons of the Revolution
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.
Government career
Hitchcock was in his sixties when President McKinley appointed him Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia
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in 1897 and in February 1898 Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, the first Ambassador accredited from the United States to the court of Russia
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. He was recalled in 1898 to serve in first McKinley's and then his successor, Roosevelt's, Cabinet. As Secretary of the Interior, Hitchcock pursued a vigorous program for the conservation
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of natural resources and reorganized the administration of Native American affairs.
Hitchcock died April 9, 1909, in Washington, D.C.
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, at the age of 73. Hitchcock was buried at the Bellefontaine Cemetery
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in St. Louis, Missouri
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.Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07
References
External links
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New York Times article on Hitchcock's appointment as Interior SecretaryDecember 22, 1898.
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1835 births
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