Mary Evelyn Hitchcock
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| Born | Mary Evelyn Higgins March 10, 1849 Virginia |
| Died | April 6, 1920 (aged 71) |
| Pen name | Mary Doyle |
| Occupation | author, traveler |
| Alma mater | Lawrence Academy |
| Notable works | Two women in the Klondike: the story of a journey to the gold-fields of Alaska |
| Spouse | Roswell D. Hitchcock, Jr. |
| Children | Harriet Bradford Hitchcock Harriman |
Mary Evelyn Hitchcock (pen names, Mary Doyle and Mrs. Roswell D. Hitchcock; March 10, 1849 - April 6, 1920) was an American author and explorer. She was part of the Floradora Company in the early 20th century, and also worked from the New York World as a reporter.
Mary Evelyn Higgins was born in Virginia, March 10, 1849. She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas A. (of Norfolk, Virginia) and Cecelia (Fitzgerald) Higgins. She was educated at Lawrence Academy, where she received academic honors.
She married Commander Roswell D. Hitchcock, USN, (son of Roswell Dwight Hitchcock) and they had one daughter, Harriet Bradford Hitchcock Harriman (1872-1939). Hitchcock accompanied her husband to the Vienna Exposition, 1873, Paris Exposition, 1878, to Japan, 1882, where his ship remained two years; and again in 1892, when he was captain of USS Alert. After the death of the husband, she made a tour of the world.
In 1898, she went to Klondike with her friend Edith Van Buren, embarking from San Francisco on a steamer. Their luggage included multiple pets and an early motion picture device called an animatoscope. Hitchcock climbed Skagway Pass on foot before the days of the railroad. She subsequently wrote the book, Two Women in the Klondike, which described this visit to the Yukon.
Hitchcock was so impressed with the mining and agricultural possibilities of the Yukon that she spread the knowledge she had gained through lectures, which added largely to funds for churches and hospitals. She returned to the north, where she staked more than 100 claims and because so deeply interested financially that she spent the greater part of five years there.
In 1904, Hitchcock organized and was president of The Entertainment Club, in New York City. She was also a Fellow of the National Geographic Society, as well as a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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