12 Facts About Phineas Hitchcock

Phineas Warren Hitchcock was an American Delegate and a Senator from Nebraska.

Phineas Hitchcock was born in New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York, the son of Gad Hitchcock and Nancy Prime.

Phineas Hitchcock entered Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts graduating in 1855.

Once in Nebraska, Hitchcock opened a law office, combining with the practice of his profession an agency for several insurance companies and a general real estate business.

Phineas Hitchcock was appointed a United States Marshal from 1861 to 1864; a Republican, elected as the Nebraska Territory Delegate to the Thirty-ninth Congress and served from March 4,1865 to March 1,1867, when the Territory was admitted as a State into the Union.

Phineas Hitchcock was appointed surveyor general of Nebraska and Iowa from 1867 to 1869.

In 1870, Phineas Hitchcock was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4,1871, to March 3,1877.

Phineas Hitchcock served as the chairman of the Committee on Territories in the Forty-fourth Congress.

Phineas Hitchcock was involved in newspaper publishing and various businesses.

In 1873 Phineas Hitchcock introduced the Timber Culture Act a follow-up act to the Homestead Act.

Phineas Hitchcock 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.

Phineas Hitchcock was born in 1837 in Newburgh, New York and died in 1877 in Omaha, Nebraska.