profound knowledge of the law itself, but a wealth of scholarly attainments and literary embellishments rarely found in the busy practitioner of the present day. And with all, and, perhaps, above all, Mr. Hitchcock never failed to remember that one of the highest duties of a lawyer is to aid the courts in a correct and righteous administration of justice. . . As a citizen, his lofty sentiments, and above all his indomitable courage of conviction, made him one of those heroic characters in our civic and political life which are as rare as they are valuable."

"Mr. Henry Hitchcock* was a lawyer of the type of Pym, and Maynard, and Somers, and Adams, and Jefferson. He devoted himself to his profession, not merely as a business, but as a public duty. . . Active as he was in his profession, . active as he was in the public life of his time, active as he had been during the Civil War and in what led up to it, .. there never was reproach upon his character. He bore a good repute among men; . . the repute of respect, which he had even from those to whom he was most earnestly opposed."

"In 1859 he was chosen and to the end of his life continued a Director of Washington University [in St. Louis]. For [fifteen] years, to the time of his death, he was VicePresident [of the Board]."

"In 1867 Mr. Hitchcock took prominent part in founding the St. Louis Law School [the Law Department of Washington University]. He was for the first three years Dean of the School," and for many years a member of its Faculty.

"In 1878, with three other eminent members of the profession, he united in a call for a convention of lawyers at Saratoga, which resulted in the formation of the American Bar Association. In 1880 he was President of the St. Louis Bar Association. . . In 1881 he was President of the Civil Service Reform Association of Missouri. He was then and until his death a member of the National

*From remarks by Mr. Frederic W. Lehmann, of the St. Louis Bar

Civil Service Reform League, and was always an earnest worker in the cause of Civil Service Reform. In 1882 he was President of the Missouri Bar Association. From 1889 till the time of his death he was one of the trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden, appointed by the will of [its founder] Mr. Henry Shaw. In 1889 he was President of the American Bar Association, and in 1901 was chosen one of the Trustees of the National Institution established [at Washington, D. C.] by Andrew Carnegie."

"Mr. Hitchcock's great reputation beyond as well as in Missouri brought him invitations to deliver addresses before many learned bodies.. learned bodies. . . In 1879 [he read a paper] before the American Bar Association on 'The Inviolability of Telegrams'; in 1887, before the New York State Bar Association, on 'American State Constitutions,' and in the same year, before the American Bar Association, upon 'General Corporation Laws'; he delivered an address before the Political Science Association of the University of Michigan on "The Development of the Constitution of the United States as influenced by Chief Justice Marshall'; at the Centennial Celebration of the Organization of the Federal Judiciary, on 'The Supreme Court and the Constitution;' in 1897, before the National Civil Service Reform League, on 'The Republican Party and Civil Service Reform.""

Mr. Hitchcock impressed all who came in contact with him as an exceptionally serious and self-contained man. To those who knew him as a young man he appeared shy and reserved. Throughout life he was regarded, even by many who thought they knew him, as cold and unsympathetic. He did not wear his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at. Devotion to his life work was the keynote to his character; he sought necessary relaxation in varied reading, which covered the entire domain of the best literature. He kept up his classical studies to the end, and took especial delight in the perfect diction and broad humanity of his favorite poet, Horace.

Integer vitae scelerisque purus

depicts truly the sterling quality of the man who, in the words of his sometime associate in practice,* "carries with him the admiration of all lawyers, the esteem of all good citizens, and the love and affection of those who had an opportunity of associating more intimately with him in his private life."

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo

voices his innate aversion to whatever he regarded as low or unworthy.

Justum et tenacem propositi virum

non civium ardor prava jubentium,
non vultus instantis tyranni
mente quatit solida

describes without exaggeration the "moral courage and fidelity to conviction [of the citizen who] was sure to tread wherever his sense of duty pointed the way";† who "considered and determined his course of action

the standpoint of duty,

.

from

never stopping to debate, either with himself or with others, the question of whether his advocacy or condemnation of a measure would have an unfavorable effect upon his own interests."

It was the privilege of comparatively few to know Mr. Hitchcock intimately in his home life. In the company of a few chosen guests, gathered at his table, he appeared at his best-the affable, courteous and refined gentleman. "With tactful and engaging manner, carrying the conversation and causing all to follow, with the brilliancy of his conversation, roaming from grave to lighter moods, replete with reminiscences and anecdote, with humorous disquisittions upon topics of the day and literature, who would not bear cheerful testimony that he was the incomparable host?"-§

†From remarks by Mr. E. H. Kehr, of the St. Louis Bar. +Memorial.

From remarks by Mr. Henry T. Kent, of the St. Louis Bar.

**Mr. Hitchcock contributed a rendition, in English verse, of the second Epode of Horace, printed, after his death. for the Bibliophile Society of Boston.

The maxim-Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well-was accepted by Mr. Hitchcock as an axiom; it was his constant and sure guide in college; he insisted on it with his pupils in the Worcester High School; it dominated his life. His industry was untiring. He had a remarkably accurate and retentive memory. He was phenomenally quick and sure in grasping facts and principles. His reasoning was clear and convincing. His judgment was not likely to be questioned. He was a fluent and persuasive speaker; a perspicuous, forceful and elegant writer. A patrician by birthright, his natural bent was confirmed by association with men of kindred instincts. He believed in government by the people, but a personal study of the ways of professional politicians early convinced him that they were not for him. A Republican from 1858, he was loyal to the principles and a power in the higher councils of the party. He believed in his party as the exponent of political doctrine, and in public office as a trust. By temperament and training he was eminently fitted for the highest legislative or judicial positions; but in Missouri the judiciary is elective, . and his personality was not such as to appeal to party managers. Moreover, he was not of the dominant party in the state at large.

"As a citizen he occupied a position almost unique.* Brave to the uttermost in upholding and defending what he considered right and good in the administration of public affairs, he never wavered in the conscientious performance of every duty which citizenship in a republic imposes on the individual. . . His active participation in political discussions marked the deep rooted sincerity of his nature and convictions, and showed that he considered and determined his course of action . . . from the standpoint of duty, . . . duty to advocate and stand for that which was right, and to oppose and condemn that which was wrong from the standpoint of morals."

*Quoted from the Memorial.

In 1857, Mr. Hitchcock married Mary Collier, of St. Louis. Mrs. Hitchcock and two sons born of this union, Henry and George Collier, survive him.

Mr. Hitchcock was born on July 3, 1829, and died on March 18, 1902. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1882. Engrossing interests with which he had become identified made it impracticable for him to attend its meetings or to contribute to its work.

It was the privilege of the writer to sit under Mr. Hitchcock as a pupil in the Worcester High School, and to know him again as a trusted friend from 1866. The limits of this sketch do not permit an adequate presentation of the man as he was in life and as he lives in memory.