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ALFRED OWEN HITCHCOCK Alfred Owen Hitchcock, son of Dr. Alfred and Fidelia Dorcas (Clark) Hitchcock, was born May 16, 1842, at Ashby, Massachusetts. He received his preparatory classical education at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, and entered Dartmouth College in the Fall of 1859 as a member of the class of 63. He severed his connection with that class at the end of Freshman year, on account of ill health,
and re-entered in the Fall of 1861, joining our class as a Sophomore. A strong desire to enter
the army induced him to abandon his college course, and he left us in November, 1862. In
December, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Fifty-third Regiment, Massachusetts
Volunteers. At the charge on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, he was wounded in the right eye. He
was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Fifty-seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Veteran
Volunteers, in October, 1863; was promoted to First Lieutenant in October, 1864, and to
Captain in May, 1865. He served, as Aide-de-Camp and Provost-Marshal on the staff of
Major-General Nelson A. Miles, and was made Brevet-Major for gallant and meritorious services.
By a special order of the War Department, he served for a year after the close of the war. He
then returned, and commenced the study of medicine with his father at Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, and afterward attended lectures at Harvard Medical School, from which
institution he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in March, 1870. He immediately commenced
the practice of his profession at Holliston, Massachusetts, where he remained for two or three
years, doing a very satisfactory business, when his father, who was growing old and feeble,
sent for him to go to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and take charge of his practice. He has
remained there ever since, devoting himself entirely to his profession, with a successful
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