Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Jr. (November 9, 1891 – January 22, 1958) was on the 1913 College Football All-America Team. From an influential missionary family in the

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, he was admitted to McLean Hospital during

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, where he would spend the remainder of his life.

Life and career

Hitchcock was born November 9, 1891, on Molokai island in the

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. His father was Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Sr. (1864–1931). His paternal grandparents were Edward Griffin Hitchcock (1837–1898), son of Reverend Harvey Rexford Hitchcock (1800–1855), and Mary Tenney Castle (1838–1926), daughter of

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founder

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(1808–1894). His mother was Hannah Julia Meyer (1866–1912), who was daughter of Rudolph Wilhelm Meyer and his wife, Kalama Waha, who was ethnically Native Hawaiian. Hitchcock's father's first cousin was painter David Howard Hitchcock (1861–1943). He also had a great-uncle named Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Jr. who lived 1835–1891 and published a dictionary of the

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while principal of

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, and whose account of the 1874 election of King

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and the ensuing

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has been published in the '' Hawaiian Journal of History.'' Hitchcock graduated from

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in 1910, winning the Roll of Honor award. He then attended

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, as did his father. While at Harvard he was the vice-president of the

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. He played as a tackle on the Harvard Crimson football team and was on the 1913 College Football All-America Team. He also played as

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on the

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team. He graduated in 1914. In September 1914, Hitchcock entered

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. He volunteered to work for the

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as an ambulance driver in

, but became ill waiting for a passport. He resigned from the law school and took a job with

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on April 19, 1915. He served in the National Guard in Ohio and Texas. In 1917 he attended the final illness of his brother. By March 1917 he returned to Firestone, but resigned in April to apply for an officer's commission, and was recalled into the National Guard. By August he became 2nd lieutenant, and 1st lieutenant October 23, 1917. On January 16, 1918, he was sent to

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for artillery school. He served as an instructor and in combat that summer. In September, he was admitted to a field hospital, and sent back to

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. He was discharged in April 1919, and on January 1, 1920, admitted to

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for the insane, where he died on January 22, 1958. Hitchcock was then interred at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hitchcock, Harvey Rexford 1891 births 1958 deaths All-American college football players American football tackles Harvard Crimson football players United States Army personnel of World War I United States Army officers Punahou School alumni People from Molokai Players of American football from Hawaii American people of Native Hawaiian descent American expatriates in France McLean Hospital patients