HITCHCOCK, EMERSON W., son of John and Jeannette (BLODGETT) HITCHCOCK, was born at Marysville, Province of Ontario, in 1863. John HITCHCOCK, D. D. S., was a prominent member of his profession, located many years at Canton, St. Lawrence county, New York. Emerson W. was educated at the union schools at Canton, with a special course at St. Lawrence university, and began the study of medicine with Dr. Edmund CARLETON of New York city, completing a four years' course at the New York Homeopathic Medical college and hospital, from which he graduated in 1890, receiving an appointment as clinical instructor to the chair of pediatrics in that college after graduation. 

      He first engaged in the practice of medicine in New York city, and later practiced in Goshen, Orange county, New York. He came to St. Johnsbury in 1895, where he has since continued in the successful practice of his profession. He is a member of Vermont Homeopathic Medical society and the Surgical Gynecological society of New England. Dr. HITCHCOCK is a member of Palestine commandery and of the subordinate bodies of Masonry. 
 
 
 

Source:  Successful Vermonters, William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company, 1904, page 63.

Prepared by Tom Dunn January 2004