Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Jr.

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 Hawaiian Islands, he was admitted to McLean Hospital during World War I where he would spend the remainder of his life.

Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Jr.
Hitchcock in 1913
Harvard Crimson
PositionTackle
Career history
CollegeHarvard (1913)
Personal information
Born:November 9, 1891
Molokai, Hawaii
Died:January 22, 1958(1958-01-22) (aged 66)
McLean, Virginia
Career highlights and awards
All-American (1913)

Life and career

Hitchcock was born November 9, 1891 on Molokaʻi island in the Kingdom of Hawaii. 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 Castle & Cooke founder Samuel Northrup Castle (1808–1894). His mother was Hannah Julia Meyer (1866–1912)[1] 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 Hawaiian language while principal of Lahainaluna School,[2] and whose account of the 1874 election of King Kalākaua and the ensuing Honolulu Courthouse riot has been published in the Hawaiian Journal of History.[3]

Hitchcock graduated from Punahou School in 1910 winning the Roll of Honor award.[4] He then attended Harvard University, as did his father.[5] While at Harvard he was the vice-president of the Student Union.[6] He played as a tackle on the Harvard Crimson football team and was on the 1913 College Football All-America Team.[7] He also played as pitcher on the baseball team.[8] He graduated in 1914.

In September 1914, Hitchcock entered Harvard Law School. He volunteered to work for the Red Cross as an ambulance driver in World War I, but became ill waiting for a passport. He resigned from the law school and took a job with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company 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 France 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 Washington, DC. He was discharged in April 1919, and on January 1, 1920 admitted to McLean Hospital for the insane[9] where he died on January 22, 1958.[10][11] Hitchcock was then interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

References
  1. Jonathan Tenney (1904) [1891]. The Tenney family, or, the descendants of Thomas Tenney, of Rowley, Massachusetts, 1638-1890. Rumford Press. pp. 592.
  2. Harvey Rexford Hitchcock 1835–1891 (1887). An English-Hawaiian dictionary; with various useful tables: prepared for the use of Hawaiian-English schools. Bancroft Company.
  3. Dabagh, Jean; Lyons, Curtis Jere; Hitchcock, Harvey Rexford (1974). Dabagh, Jean (ed.). "A King is Elected: One Hundred Years Ago" (PDF). Hawaiian Journal of History. 8: 76–89.
  4. Punahou School (1911). Catalogue. The School. p. 58.
  5. Annual report. Volume 61. Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. 1913. p. 46.
  6. "Hitchcock Resigned Office". The Harvard Crimson. December 13, 1913. Retrieved May 8, 2010. Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr., '14, of Pukoo, Molokal, Rawaii, has resigned as vice-president of the Union, and the governing board has appointed Sydney Proctor Clark '14 of Chestnut Hill, Pa., to fill the vacancy.
  7. "Harvard University Honorees". The Ivy League sports. Princeton, NJ, USA: Council of Ivy League Presidents. Archived from the original on 2010-05-09. Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  8. W. O. Fenn (1914). William Richards Castle Jr. (ed.). "Athletics: Baseball". The Harvard graduates' magazine. Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association. p. 640.
  9. "Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr". Harvard Class of 1914—sexennial report. The Class. 1921. p. 131.
  10. "In 1914, poised for war". Harvard Gazette. 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  11. Harvard Alumni Association (1960). Harvard alumni directory. Harvard University. p. 656.
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