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  Henry L. Hitchcock
  (10/13/1813-7/6/1873)
  
  President, Western Reserve College, 7/1855-6/27/1871
  
  Education
  
  Graduated from Yale University, 1832
  
  Graduated from Lane Theological Seminary, 1837
  
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  University Awards

  Western Reserve University named its Euclid Avenue library building Hitchcock Hall in honor of Hitchcock’s service as president, 1934.

  Western Reserve University named one of the men’s north side residences Hitchcock House in honor of his “patience, his independence of thought and action, his skill in attracting competent colleagues and his financial judgment,” 1964.
  
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  Career

  Principal, Burton Academy, Burton, Ohio, 1832-1834

  Pastor, Congregational Church, Morgan, Ohio, 1838-1840

  Pastor, Second Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio, 1840-1855

  Professor of Christian Theology, Western Reserve College, 1855-1873

  Mayor, Village of Hudson, Ohio, 1861

  Trustee, Western Reserve College, 1871-1873
  
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  University Numbers
  
                                      1855/56             1870/71
  Enrollment                       137                         168
  Number of faculty             13                           22
  Endowment                 $60,000               $143,000
  Tuition                              $30                        $30
  
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  Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
  
  1859  Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published. 
  
  1861  The United States was plunged into Civil War. 
  
  1864  Western Reserve College erased the $25,000 debt that had threatened to close the college in
               the 1850s. 
  
  1869  The Cleveland Public Library was established. 
              The Union Pacific met the Central Pacific, completing the country's transcontinental
              railway. 
  
  1870  John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company. 
  
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  Regional Population
  
                                      1850                  1870
  Hudson                       1,457                    1,520
  
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  Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.
  
  Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.

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