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Reuben Hitchcock (Ohio, attorney)

b. 1806-09-02 d. 1883-12-09

Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, attorney. Ohio native. Son of Peter Hitchcock and Nabby Cowles. Attended Yale University in New Haven, CT. Married to Sarah Marshall Hitchcock in 1834. Father of Peter Hitchcock, Eliza Hitchcock, Edward Hitchcock, and Hellen H. Hitchcock. Admitted to the bar in 1830. Judge of Common Pleas from 1851 to 1855. Vice president of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad. Special commissioner to review the cases of political prisoners incarcerated at Camp Chase, Ohio, from August 13, 1862, to October 30, 1862.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland Ward 2, p. 208A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Lake County, Painesville Village, p. 418.
_Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June 1884, presented at the meeting of alumni, June 28, 1884, p. 168.
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1880-1901), series 2, vol. 4: 380, 690.

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Hitchcock, Reuben. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213232 (November 12, 2026).

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