Harvey Rexford Hitchcock

Harvey Rexford Hitchcock was an early Protestant missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii from the United States. With his three sons, he and his wife started a family that would influence Hawaiis history. He had at least three namesakes in the subsequent generations.

Harvey Rexford Hitchcock was born March 13, 1800 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His father was David Hitchcock and mother was Sarah Swan. He was the oldest son ofchildren. He graduated from Williams College in 1828, and Auburn Theological Seminary in 1831. His younger brother George B. Hitchcock also became a minister, and was active in the American abolitionism movement known as the Underground Railroad. He married Rebecca Howard on August 26, 1831 in Auburn, New York, and sailed on Novemberto the Hawaiian Islands, as part of the fifth company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. They arrived in Honolulu May 17, 1832. Also on this voyage were missionaries William P. Alexander, David Belden Lyman, and Lorenzo Lyons. His sister Elizabeth Hitchcock arrivedyears later and in 1836 married missionary printer Edmond Horton Rogers .

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