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   Hitchcock
   Orra °
   O. W. H. ; née White ;
   geologist, theologian, professor and for a decade president of Amherst College, Edward Hitchcock (1796-1864) in 1821
   8, of whom 6 lived past infancy; geologist Edwad Hitchcock jr. (1828-1911) ; geologist Charles Henry Hitchcock (1836-1919) ; ...
   1796 in Amherst, Massachussetts
   1863
   Amherst, Massachussetts
   farmer Jarib White (1770 c. -1796 after)
   Ruth Sherman White (1770 c. -1796 after) (mother)
   private tutors & self-taught; girls's schools in South Hadley and Roxbury near Boston, Mass.
   United States of America
   Edward Hitchcock: Geological Survey of Massachusetts & Religion of Geology (1851) & Atlas of New Hampshire Geology (1878, with 19 plates: http://docs/unh.edu/hitchcock/pages/ ) ; Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864): Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany & Zoology of Massachusetts (Amherst, Mass. 1833 & 1841) ; Sketch of the Scenery of Massachusetts. With Plates From the Geological Report of Prof. Hitchcock (Northampton, Mass. 1842) ;
   Deerfield Academy and Amherst Academy (instructor of drawing and science) ; Mead Art Museum at Amherst College ;
   lithographic printers L. H. Bradford & Co. Lithography ; Pendleton’s Lithography (Boston) ; B. W. Thayer & Co., Lithographers (Boston) ;
   mineralogical, botanical, geological, geographical, and topographical ink drawing, watercolour, painting, and woodcut ; lecture plates ;
   www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/programs/2011exhib/owh/OWHcklst ; www.georgeglazer.com/archives/prints/vista/pendletons.html
   http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma27_main.html ; www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/programs/2011exhib/owh ; ...
   Michele L. Aldrich: O. W. H., geological illustrator GSA Conference 2001, paper 103-0 ; R. Moody & E. Buffetaut: Dinosaurs 2010: 122 ; R.A.Herber: A women of Amherst. The Travel Diaries of OWH 1847/50. Iuniverse Inc, 2008 ; E. C. Worman: Watercolors & Prints, in: AB Bookman's Weekly 1989: 646 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 1953 ; O. W. H.: An Amherst Woman of Art & Science ; Davidson 2008: 113-8 ; Daria D’Arienzo: Union of the Beautiful with the Useful: Through the Eyes of O.W.H., Massachusetts Review 51:2 (2010): 294-344 ; Jordan D. & Theresa A. Marche: Isis 89 (1998): 631-52 ;
   Further Archsource: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orra_White_Hitchcock ; Edward & Orra White
Hitchcock Papers at Amherst College Archives: http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma27_main.html

Further child: ->Emily Hitchcock Terry (1838 - 1921) ;

American painter & botanist, active as illustr. of Edward Hitchcock; cf. Nancy Pick: Curious Footprints, Amherst 2006; Julie R. Newell, The Hitchcock Family: A Case Study in Patterns of Geological Training and Employment in Antebellum America, ed. Geological Society of America. See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=5500&-max=25 .
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