Rutland

HITCHCOCK, Ernest

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 221

Ernest HITCHCOCK, Pittsford, farmer, was born 01 December 1856 at Pittsford 
[Rutland County, Vermont], son of Charles and Sarah Jane (MERRILL) HITCHCOCK. 
Educated at Pittsford public schools, Montpelier Seminary, Wesleyan 
University, and Yale University. Admitted to the bar, Newark [Wayne County], 
New York, 1881; secretary Lawyers' Cooperative Publishing Company from its 
organization, two years; practice law and engaged in legal literary work, 
Chicago and Washington [D. C.], 1883-1889; farming at Pittsford since 1889. 
Democrat; selectman, Pittsford, three years; lister five years; member state 
board of agriculture six years, 1901-1906; cattle commission two years, 
1901-1902; forestry commissioner two years 1905-1906; member special 
commission on taxation, 1907-1908; represented Pittsford in the state 
Legislature 1908; chairman school building committee, Pittsford, 1911. In 
1883 he [Ernest HITCHCOCK] married [Miss?] Caroline A. CURTICE, of Webster 
[Webster in Livinston, Madison, or Monroe County?], New York; they have four 
children: Miriam Curtice, Harry Merrill, Curtice Nelson, and John Allen.

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