Hitchcock family collection

Collection

Identifier: 2013-20

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1845 letter from Judge James Grant and wife to sister-in-law Celia Hubbard mentions some local names [transcription in external document]

Cabinet card of Lucy (Hubbard) Hitchcock (1827-1898) by Ormsby ca 1888-1893. She was the mother of W. H. Hitchcock and the widow of Jared Beecher Hitchcock.

1886 story about Lucy Hubbard and Hannah Pierce getting lost on the prairie in November 1840 - one typed page by William H. Hitchcock.

CDV of Maggie Van Cott (1830-1914) the first woman Methodist exhorter, who appeared in Davenport in 1876 at the First Methodist Church.

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, some written by William H. Hitchcock.

1931 letter from W.H. Hitchcock to Rev. Geroge Robb presenting a blackboard to congreagation - two typed pages

Image of the Graf Zeppelin

Lithograph (?) of a bridge with no identification

part of a Davenport Fire Department Souvenir Book

Davenport centennial program from April 1936 presented by Sudlow intermediate School

Historical Sketch and General Roster 1881-1925 of August Wentz Post No. 1 G.A.R. compiled by J. Ewing Cowgill, Quartermaster and Historian

World War Poems and Others by Guy E. Polley "The Carpenter Poet" (1927)

Souvenir Iowa Soldiers' Home in Marshalltown, Iowa [1925?] with images

Iowa Soldiers' Home in marshalltown, Iowa - Notes on the Institution and its objects by B.C. Whitehill 1925 includes a brief history, description of grounds, etc.

Dates

Creation: 1845-1970

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

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