Phineas Hitchcock
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United States Senator from Nebraska |
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In office March 4, 1871 – March 4, 1877 |
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| Preceded by | John M. Thayer |
| Succeeded by | Alvin Saunders |
| Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska Territory's At-large district | |
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In office March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel G. Daily |
| Succeeded by | statehood achieved |
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Phineas Warren Hitchcock November 30, 1831 New Lebanon, New York |
| Died | July 10, 1881 (aged 49) Omaha, Nebraska |
| Political party | Republican |
Phineas Warren Hitchcock (November 30, 1831 – July 10, 1881) was a Delegate and a Senator from Nebraska. Hitchcock County, Nebraska, is named after him.
He was born in New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York, the son of Gad Hitchcock and Nancy Prime.
When he turned 16, he began two years preparatory course study at the Great Barrington Academy in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He entered Williams College in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts graduating in 1855. His classmates at Williams included, James A. Garfield, James Gilfillan and John James Ingalls. After he graduated, and after several years of combined law study and journalistic work in New York State, he moved to the Territory of Nebraska in the spring of 1857, locating at Omaha, then a small settlement. He at once opened a law office, combining with the practice of his profession an agency for several insurance companies and a general real estate business.
He married on December 27, 1858 at Omaha, Nebraska, Annie M. Monell, the daughter of Lucinda Carpenter and Dr. Gilbert C. Monell, an 1839 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the Old Settlers' Association. She was born in 1837 in Newburgh (town), New York, Orange County, New York and died in 1877 in Omaha, Nebraska. She is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
They were the parents of three children, all born at Omaha, Nebraska: Gilbert M. Hitchcock, born September 18, 1859 and the founder of the Omaha World-Herald and a U.S. Representative and Senator; Grace Hitchcock, born September 20, 1862 and John Gray Hitchcock, born April 29, 1865.
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