There are three children missing here.
Adam J. Hitchins born 12/1869 in Frostburg, Maryland son of Owen and Elizabeth Jeffries Hitchins he was not in the 1880 census so most likely died by then. Eva G. Hitchins born 1873 in Frostburg, Maryland to Owen and Elizabeth Jeffries Hitchins.
Adam Hitchins born 4/1887 in Frostburg, Maryland to Owen and Nannie Powell Hitchins.
He & Elizabeth and her brother James arrived July 5, 1852 on the Ship Shackamaxon from Liverpool, England, coming to Allegany County and staying in Frostburg untl their deaths. He was 62 at the time of his death.
His Father was John Hitchen, Mother Hannah
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL
MARCH 25, 1893
SUDDEN DEATH OF A LEADING CITIZEN
Not many people retired Monday night knowing that the members of a prominent family in town were bending in helpless grief over the dead boy of a tender husband and father. The next morning, however, the sad news.."Owen Hitchins Is Dead" spread rapidly and expressions of genuine sorrow were universal.
Mr. Hitchins first complained Sunday afternoon, but no special notice was evoked from the family until about 9:30 o'clock Monday evening, when the pains in his chest became so acute that his brother, A.E. Hitchins, advised retirement and assisted him upstairs to bed. Mr. A.E. Hitchins, apprehending no serious result left for the night. The patient, however, grew steadily worse until death came to his relief at 10:30 o'clock. Mr. Hitchins was perfectly conscious, and like those around him, unaware of the grave nature of his illness. He walked with his son, Gladstone, until the crisis came-the climacteric moment when the heart, convulsed, suddenly ceased to beat. Dr. J. Marshall Price was present, but beyond administering the usual remedies was of course unable to stay the inevitable.
Mr. Hitchins was born May 25, 1831, at a village situated on the Bristol Channel, county Ambroth, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, and was therefore nearly 62 years old. He came to the United States in 1852, landing in Philadelphia July 4 and settled in Frostburg a few days later. He began work during September following with his brother-in-law, James Jeffries, in Borden Mine, the late George Tennant then in charge. Here he continued to work until 1865 when he engaged in butchering, an avocation pursued until after the civil war broke out. In April 1861 he took a sub-contract from Batelle & Evans to furnish fresh meats to the United States Army operating in West Virginia and Maryland. In 1862 he entered a partnership with George D. Evans, of Morgantown, W. Va. under the name and style of Evans & Hitchins. This firm furnished fresh meats to the United States Army variously commanded by Gen's Kelly, shields, Schenck, Milroy, Landers and Col's Mulligan and Hayes, the last named after President of the United States. The firm dissolved in 1864 when the partnership of Hitchins Bros., consisting of Owen and Adam E. Hitchins, was established to conduct business of general merchandise in Frostburg, the brothers having purchased the stock and leased the store-room of J.H. Hoblitzell & Co. Twenty-seven years of successful business life followed until Feb. 5, 1891 the firm dissolved so far as its mercantile business was concerned and gave place to "The Hitchins Bros. Company."
Meanwhile in 1882 Mr. Hitchins withdrew from the somewhat congenial work of the store and assumed charge of the National Coal Company's mine, which the firm had leased and worked it until all the coal was taken out. A tract of coal land, leased from the George's Creek Coal and Iron company, was next exhausted, although he had ere while become the prime projector of the movement which resulted in the acquirement of a lease of about 250 acres if coal land at Carlos and the organization of the Barton and George's Creek Valley Coal Company. This company comprised then, as now, some of the wealthiest, most experienced and solid men in the coal trade. The stockholders are the Hon. Lloyd Lowndes, H. Crawford Black, Capt. John Sheriden, John Wilson, Adam E. Hitchins and now the estate of Owen Hitchins. From the beginning until his death, Mr. Hitchins held the office of Superintendent, a position for which his early practical experience and later business development fitted him in an eminent degree.
At the time of his death he was the Treasurer of the Frostburg Gas and Electric Light Company, whose directors at a meeting, held Thursday. adopted a paper attesting their estimate of him. It is appended.
Resolved: That the Directors of this company desire to spread upon the minutes their sense of loss they sustain individually and as a company in the death of Mr. Owen Hitchins. Connected with the company as he had been as a stockholder from its inception and for many years as adviser and Director, he displayed in the management of its affairs that same sterling fidelity, intelligent conservation and well-directed energy which made him a wise counsellor, a good citizen and a trusty friend, and which will make his loss one that will be felt not only by his business associates, but by his city, his county and his adopted state.
He was also a Trustee of Public School No. 1 at the time of his death.
In the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he was a member for many years, he held official station for long term. One of the leading promoters and builders of the present splendid edifice, he always, looked upon its walls and tower with the pride of one who felt he had to the extent of his ability symbolized here "the building not made with hands."
The Journal enjoys particularly fond reason for testifying of him that he was a friend indeed to those whom he esteemed worthy of his favor. From the first to the last he was a strong, substantial well-wisher of the paper, and with his surviving brother, Adam E. Hitchins, the editor gratefully accounts the two as a combination whose multiplied testimonials of goodwill have never shown the shadow of turning.
Mr. Hitchins home was a place of pleasantness. To a large number he was a trusted counsellor, and to whom he always gave sympathetic audience. To his wife he was the faithful, affectionate husband, to his children the wise, firm, yet indulgent parent. These will miss him as no others will.
Mr. Hitchins immediate survivors are his wife, five sons, two daughter, two brothers and one sister. Of the sons three are infants. The oldest son J. H. Hitchens, is the resident agent of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroad company, the second, W.E. Gladstone, is the chief clerk resident of the Barton and George's Creek Valley Coal Company. The elder brother, Adam E. is the surviving chief of both the Hitchins Bros' firm and company and John, manifest clerk at Carlos mines. His sister is Mrs. William Williams, of this place.
The funeral took place Thursday afternoon, Rev. H.S. France, of Baltimore, preaching an appropriate sermon. A large attendance and closed doors of all business houses evinced the popular regret and sympathy. The active pallbearers were Messrs, J.J. Hoblitzell and W.T. Oats, of Meyersdale, Capt. John Sheriden, of Mt. Savage; C. Roberts, A. Stewart, A.J. Willison, F.C. Beall and J.B Oder. The honorary were Hon's John Douglas of Lonaconing and Lloyd Lowndes of Cumberland; Messrs Thomas Malloy of Mt. Savage; A. Hixon of Philadelphia; A.C. Black and Charles Frick of Baltimore; L.M. Hamilton of Cumberland; Duncan Sinclair of Midlothian; D. Armstrong and William Brown of Frostburg.
Eight beautiful floral designs were contributed by friends and borne by Messrs. Daniel Krapf, T.A. Sullivan, H.S. Keller, James Thomas, Charles Stewart, Harry Metzger, William Edwards and Edward Gross.
The most elaborate of these are described for the Journal as follows:
Pillow: Bride Roses, Lillies and Lily of the Valley................D. Annan
Anchor: Roses and Lily of the Valley........W.R. Percy
Easel: With Floral Sickle and Sheaf..........W.C. Devecmon
Wreath.....Easter Lillies, Hyacinth, etc...............Mrs. Marion Spear
Anchor and Cross: Motto "My Friend" .....John Chambers
Scroll of Honor: With initials of Immortelles, O.H......J.B. Oder
The body was interred in the family lot, Allegany Cemetery, Rev. Messrs, Van Arsdale, France and Britt reading the words committing it to earth until the just shall rise in the resurrection. So passed away one who illustrated in a modest way what is possible of attainment to men of strong intellectuality. Since he was seven years of age he had never attended school, yet her grew to be a tireless reader of the best modern literature. The Library collected through forty years of discriminating selection and rejection is believed to be the choicest assemblage of intellectual achievements in the county. He had read and re-read the most thoughtful, and digested the most profound until it mattered little what topic arose he was always ready with some apt and conclusive observation from some standard literary oracle. He was an accurate judge of style and loved the pregnant fluency of writers of the Macauley type. Carlyle he called "jerky" and in general his criticisms accorded with those of expert doctors of rhetoric. Much of his reading was theological, whence he strengthened the strong religious bias with which his life began. His faith in the immortality of mankind and the endless triumph of a food life grew up in his mental constitution with all the strength , infallible logic can lend. His conduct, so inspired and so guided, completes the biography of that "highest type of man." A Christian and bequeaths to his children the most precious of human legacies - the memory of a just man made perfect.
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
BREVITIES
The regular train from the Creek and special from Cumberland Thursday brought a host of people to attend the funeral of the late Owen Hitchins. Everybody knew him.
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
Owen Hitchins was a third degree member of Fraternity Council No. 659, American Legion of Honor, of this place. From this Fraternity his heirs will receive $2000.00
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
John H. Lindley, of Washington D.C. was the guest several days this week of Howard Hitchens. He is a prominent government clerk and a most affable gentleman.
Adam J. Hitchins born 12/1869 in Frostburg, Maryland son of Owen and Elizabeth Jeffries Hitchins he was not in the 1880 census so most likely died by then. Eva G. Hitchins born 1873 in Frostburg, Maryland to Owen and Elizabeth Jeffries Hitchins.
Adam Hitchins born 4/1887 in Frostburg, Maryland to Owen and Nannie Powell Hitchins.
He & Elizabeth and her brother James arrived July 5, 1852 on the Ship Shackamaxon from Liverpool, England, coming to Allegany County and staying in Frostburg untl their deaths. He was 62 at the time of his death.
His Father was John Hitchen, Mother Hannah
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL
MARCH 25, 1893
SUDDEN DEATH OF A LEADING CITIZEN
Not many people retired Monday night knowing that the members of a prominent family in town were bending in helpless grief over the dead boy of a tender husband and father. The next morning, however, the sad news.."Owen Hitchins Is Dead" spread rapidly and expressions of genuine sorrow were universal.
Mr. Hitchins first complained Sunday afternoon, but no special notice was evoked from the family until about 9:30 o'clock Monday evening, when the pains in his chest became so acute that his brother, A.E. Hitchins, advised retirement and assisted him upstairs to bed. Mr. A.E. Hitchins, apprehending no serious result left for the night. The patient, however, grew steadily worse until death came to his relief at 10:30 o'clock. Mr. Hitchins was perfectly conscious, and like those around him, unaware of the grave nature of his illness. He walked with his son, Gladstone, until the crisis came-the climacteric moment when the heart, convulsed, suddenly ceased to beat. Dr. J. Marshall Price was present, but beyond administering the usual remedies was of course unable to stay the inevitable.
Mr. Hitchins was born May 25, 1831, at a village situated on the Bristol Channel, county Ambroth, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, and was therefore nearly 62 years old. He came to the United States in 1852, landing in Philadelphia July 4 and settled in Frostburg a few days later. He began work during September following with his brother-in-law, James Jeffries, in Borden Mine, the late George Tennant then in charge. Here he continued to work until 1865 when he engaged in butchering, an avocation pursued until after the civil war broke out. In April 1861 he took a sub-contract from Batelle & Evans to furnish fresh meats to the United States Army operating in West Virginia and Maryland. In 1862 he entered a partnership with George D. Evans, of Morgantown, W. Va. under the name and style of Evans & Hitchins. This firm furnished fresh meats to the United States Army variously commanded by Gen's Kelly, shields, Schenck, Milroy, Landers and Col's Mulligan and Hayes, the last named after President of the United States. The firm dissolved in 1864 when the partnership of Hitchins Bros., consisting of Owen and Adam E. Hitchins, was established to conduct business of general merchandise in Frostburg, the brothers having purchased the stock and leased the store-room of J.H. Hoblitzell & Co. Twenty-seven years of successful business life followed until Feb. 5, 1891 the firm dissolved so far as its mercantile business was concerned and gave place to "The Hitchins Bros. Company."
Meanwhile in 1882 Mr. Hitchins withdrew from the somewhat congenial work of the store and assumed charge of the National Coal Company's mine, which the firm had leased and worked it until all the coal was taken out. A tract of coal land, leased from the George's Creek Coal and Iron company, was next exhausted, although he had ere while become the prime projector of the movement which resulted in the acquirement of a lease of about 250 acres if coal land at Carlos and the organization of the Barton and George's Creek Valley Coal Company. This company comprised then, as now, some of the wealthiest, most experienced and solid men in the coal trade. The stockholders are the Hon. Lloyd Lowndes, H. Crawford Black, Capt. John Sheriden, John Wilson, Adam E. Hitchins and now the estate of Owen Hitchins. From the beginning until his death, Mr. Hitchins held the office of Superintendent, a position for which his early practical experience and later business development fitted him in an eminent degree.
At the time of his death he was the Treasurer of the Frostburg Gas and Electric Light Company, whose directors at a meeting, held Thursday. adopted a paper attesting their estimate of him. It is appended.
Resolved: That the Directors of this company desire to spread upon the minutes their sense of loss they sustain individually and as a company in the death of Mr. Owen Hitchins. Connected with the company as he had been as a stockholder from its inception and for many years as adviser and Director, he displayed in the management of its affairs that same sterling fidelity, intelligent conservation and well-directed energy which made him a wise counsellor, a good citizen and a trusty friend, and which will make his loss one that will be felt not only by his business associates, but by his city, his county and his adopted state.
He was also a Trustee of Public School No. 1 at the time of his death.
In the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he was a member for many years, he held official station for long term. One of the leading promoters and builders of the present splendid edifice, he always, looked upon its walls and tower with the pride of one who felt he had to the extent of his ability symbolized here "the building not made with hands."
The Journal enjoys particularly fond reason for testifying of him that he was a friend indeed to those whom he esteemed worthy of his favor. From the first to the last he was a strong, substantial well-wisher of the paper, and with his surviving brother, Adam E. Hitchins, the editor gratefully accounts the two as a combination whose multiplied testimonials of goodwill have never shown the shadow of turning.
Mr. Hitchins home was a place of pleasantness. To a large number he was a trusted counsellor, and to whom he always gave sympathetic audience. To his wife he was the faithful, affectionate husband, to his children the wise, firm, yet indulgent parent. These will miss him as no others will.
Mr. Hitchins immediate survivors are his wife, five sons, two daughter, two brothers and one sister. Of the sons three are infants. The oldest son J. H. Hitchens, is the resident agent of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroad company, the second, W.E. Gladstone, is the chief clerk resident of the Barton and George's Creek Valley Coal Company. The elder brother, Adam E. is the surviving chief of both the Hitchins Bros' firm and company and John, manifest clerk at Carlos mines. His sister is Mrs. William Williams, of this place.
The funeral took place Thursday afternoon, Rev. H.S. France, of Baltimore, preaching an appropriate sermon. A large attendance and closed doors of all business houses evinced the popular regret and sympathy. The active pallbearers were Messrs, J.J. Hoblitzell and W.T. Oats, of Meyersdale, Capt. John Sheriden, of Mt. Savage; C. Roberts, A. Stewart, A.J. Willison, F.C. Beall and J.B Oder. The honorary were Hon's John Douglas of Lonaconing and Lloyd Lowndes of Cumberland; Messrs Thomas Malloy of Mt. Savage; A. Hixon of Philadelphia; A.C. Black and Charles Frick of Baltimore; L.M. Hamilton of Cumberland; Duncan Sinclair of Midlothian; D. Armstrong and William Brown of Frostburg.
Eight beautiful floral designs were contributed by friends and borne by Messrs. Daniel Krapf, T.A. Sullivan, H.S. Keller, James Thomas, Charles Stewart, Harry Metzger, William Edwards and Edward Gross.
The most elaborate of these are described for the Journal as follows:
Pillow: Bride Roses, Lillies and Lily of the Valley................D. Annan
Anchor: Roses and Lily of the Valley........W.R. Percy
Easel: With Floral Sickle and Sheaf..........W.C. Devecmon
Wreath.....Easter Lillies, Hyacinth, etc...............Mrs. Marion Spear
Anchor and Cross: Motto "My Friend" .....John Chambers
Scroll of Honor: With initials of Immortelles, O.H......J.B. Oder
The body was interred in the family lot, Allegany Cemetery, Rev. Messrs, Van Arsdale, France and Britt reading the words committing it to earth until the just shall rise in the resurrection. So passed away one who illustrated in a modest way what is possible of attainment to men of strong intellectuality. Since he was seven years of age he had never attended school, yet her grew to be a tireless reader of the best modern literature. The Library collected through forty years of discriminating selection and rejection is believed to be the choicest assemblage of intellectual achievements in the county. He had read and re-read the most thoughtful, and digested the most profound until it mattered little what topic arose he was always ready with some apt and conclusive observation from some standard literary oracle. He was an accurate judge of style and loved the pregnant fluency of writers of the Macauley type. Carlyle he called "jerky" and in general his criticisms accorded with those of expert doctors of rhetoric. Much of his reading was theological, whence he strengthened the strong religious bias with which his life began. His faith in the immortality of mankind and the endless triumph of a food life grew up in his mental constitution with all the strength , infallible logic can lend. His conduct, so inspired and so guided, completes the biography of that "highest type of man." A Christian and bequeaths to his children the most precious of human legacies - the memory of a just man made perfect.
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
BREVITIES
The regular train from the Creek and special from Cumberland Thursday brought a host of people to attend the funeral of the late Owen Hitchins. Everybody knew him.
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
Owen Hitchins was a third degree member of Fraternity Council No. 659, American Legion of Honor, of this place. From this Fraternity his heirs will receive $2000.00
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
John H. Lindley, of Washington D.C. was the guest several days this week of Howard Hitchens. He is a prominent government clerk and a most affable gentleman.
There are three children missing here.
Adam J. Hitchins born 12/1869 in Frostburg, Maryland son of Owen and Elizabeth Jeffries Hitchins he was not in the 1880 census so most likely died by then. Eva G. Hitchins born 1873 in Frostburg, Maryland to Owen and Elizabeth Jeffries Hitchins.
Adam Hitchins born 4/1887 in Frostburg, Maryland to Owen and Nannie Powell Hitchins.
He & Elizabeth and her brother James arrived July 5, 1852 on the Ship Shackamaxon from Liverpool, England, coming to Allegany County and staying in Frostburg untl their deaths. He was 62 at the time of his death.
His Father was John Hitchen, Mother Hannah
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL
MARCH 25, 1893
SUDDEN DEATH OF A LEADING CITIZEN
Not many people retired Monday night knowing that the members of a prominent family in town were bending in helpless grief over the dead boy of a tender husband and father. The next morning, however, the sad news.."Owen Hitchins Is Dead" spread rapidly and expressions of genuine sorrow were universal.
Mr. Hitchins first complained Sunday afternoon, but no special notice was evoked from the family until about 9:30 o'clock Monday evening, when the pains in his chest became so acute that his brother, A.E. Hitchins, advised retirement and assisted him upstairs to bed. Mr. A.E. Hitchins, apprehending no serious result left for the night. The patient, however, grew steadily worse until death came to his relief at 10:30 o'clock. Mr. Hitchins was perfectly conscious, and like those around him, unaware of the grave nature of his illness. He walked with his son, Gladstone, until the crisis came-the climacteric moment when the heart, convulsed, suddenly ceased to beat. Dr. J. Marshall Price was present, but beyond administering the usual remedies was of course unable to stay the inevitable.
Mr. Hitchins was born May 25, 1831, at a village situated on the Bristol Channel, county Ambroth, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, and was therefore nearly 62 years old. He came to the United States in 1852, landing in Philadelphia July 4 and settled in Frostburg a few days later. He began work during September following with his brother-in-law, James Jeffries, in Borden Mine, the late George Tennant then in charge. Here he continued to work until 1865 when he engaged in butchering, an avocation pursued until after the civil war broke out. In April 1861 he took a sub-contract from Batelle & Evans to furnish fresh meats to the United States Army operating in West Virginia and Maryland. In 1862 he entered a partnership with George D. Evans, of Morgantown, W. Va. under the name and style of Evans & Hitchins. This firm furnished fresh meats to the United States Army variously commanded by Gen's Kelly, shields, Schenck, Milroy, Landers and Col's Mulligan and Hayes, the last named after President of the United States. The firm dissolved in 1864 when the partnership of Hitchins Bros., consisting of Owen and Adam E. Hitchins, was established to conduct business of general merchandise in Frostburg, the brothers having purchased the stock and leased the store-room of J.H. Hoblitzell & Co. Twenty-seven years of successful business life followed until Feb. 5, 1891 the firm dissolved so far as its mercantile business was concerned and gave place to "The Hitchins Bros. Company."
Meanwhile in 1882 Mr. Hitchins withdrew from the somewhat congenial work of the store and assumed charge of the National Coal Company's mine, which the firm had leased and worked it until all the coal was taken out. A tract of coal land, leased from the George's Creek Coal and Iron company, was next exhausted, although he had ere while become the prime projector of the movement which resulted in the acquirement of a lease of about 250 acres if coal land at Carlos and the organization of the Barton and George's Creek Valley Coal Company. This company comprised then, as now, some of the wealthiest, most experienced and solid men in the coal trade. The stockholders are the Hon. Lloyd Lowndes, H. Crawford Black, Capt. John Sheriden, John Wilson, Adam E. Hitchins and now the estate of Owen Hitchins. From the beginning until his death, Mr. Hitchins held the office of Superintendent, a position for which his early practical experience and later business development fitted him in an eminent degree.
At the time of his death he was the Treasurer of the Frostburg Gas and Electric Light Company, whose directors at a meeting, held Thursday. adopted a paper attesting their estimate of him. It is appended.
Resolved: That the Directors of this company desire to spread upon the minutes their sense of loss they sustain individually and as a company in the death of Mr. Owen Hitchins. Connected with the company as he had been as a stockholder from its inception and for many years as adviser and Director, he displayed in the management of its affairs that same sterling fidelity, intelligent conservation and well-directed energy which made him a wise counsellor, a good citizen and a trusty friend, and which will make his loss one that will be felt not only by his business associates, but by his city, his county and his adopted state.
He was also a Trustee of Public School No. 1 at the time of his death.
In the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he was a member for many years, he held official station for long term. One of the leading promoters and builders of the present splendid edifice, he always, looked upon its walls and tower with the pride of one who felt he had to the extent of his ability symbolized here "the building not made with hands."
The Journal enjoys particularly fond reason for testifying of him that he was a friend indeed to those whom he esteemed worthy of his favor. From the first to the last he was a strong, substantial well-wisher of the paper, and with his surviving brother, Adam E. Hitchins, the editor gratefully accounts the two as a combination whose multiplied testimonials of goodwill have never shown the shadow of turning.
Mr. Hitchins home was a place of pleasantness. To a large number he was a trusted counsellor, and to whom he always gave sympathetic audience. To his wife he was the faithful, affectionate husband, to his children the wise, firm, yet indulgent parent. These will miss him as no others will.
Mr. Hitchins immediate survivors are his wife, five sons, two daughter, two brothers and one sister. Of the sons three are infants. The oldest son J. H. Hitchens, is the resident agent of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroad company, the second, W.E. Gladstone, is the chief clerk resident of the Barton and George's Creek Valley Coal Company. The elder brother, Adam E. is the surviving chief of both the Hitchins Bros' firm and company and John, manifest clerk at Carlos mines. His sister is Mrs. William Williams, of this place.
The funeral took place Thursday afternoon, Rev. H.S. France, of Baltimore, preaching an appropriate sermon. A large attendance and closed doors of all business houses evinced the popular regret and sympathy. The active pallbearers were Messrs, J.J. Hoblitzell and W.T. Oats, of Meyersdale, Capt. John Sheriden, of Mt. Savage; C. Roberts, A. Stewart, A.J. Willison, F.C. Beall and J.B Oder. The honorary were Hon's John Douglas of Lonaconing and Lloyd Lowndes of Cumberland; Messrs Thomas Malloy of Mt. Savage; A. Hixon of Philadelphia; A.C. Black and Charles Frick of Baltimore; L.M. Hamilton of Cumberland; Duncan Sinclair of Midlothian; D. Armstrong and William Brown of Frostburg.
Eight beautiful floral designs were contributed by friends and borne by Messrs. Daniel Krapf, T.A. Sullivan, H.S. Keller, James Thomas, Charles Stewart, Harry Metzger, William Edwards and Edward Gross.
The most elaborate of these are described for the Journal as follows:
Pillow: Bride Roses, Lillies and Lily of the Valley................D. Annan
Anchor: Roses and Lily of the Valley........W.R. Percy
Easel: With Floral Sickle and Sheaf..........W.C. Devecmon
Wreath.....Easter Lillies, Hyacinth, etc...............Mrs. Marion Spear
Anchor and Cross: Motto "My Friend" .....John Chambers
Scroll of Honor: With initials of Immortelles, O.H......J.B. Oder
The body was interred in the family lot, Allegany Cemetery, Rev. Messrs, Van Arsdale, France and Britt reading the words committing it to earth until the just shall rise in the resurrection. So passed away one who illustrated in a modest way what is possible of attainment to men of strong intellectuality. Since he was seven years of age he had never attended school, yet her grew to be a tireless reader of the best modern literature. The Library collected through forty years of discriminating selection and rejection is believed to be the choicest assemblage of intellectual achievements in the county. He had read and re-read the most thoughtful, and digested the most profound until it mattered little what topic arose he was always ready with some apt and conclusive observation from some standard literary oracle. He was an accurate judge of style and loved the pregnant fluency of writers of the Macauley type. Carlyle he called "jerky" and in general his criticisms accorded with those of expert doctors of rhetoric. Much of his reading was theological, whence he strengthened the strong religious bias with which his life began. His faith in the immortality of mankind and the endless triumph of a food life grew up in his mental constitution with all the strength , infallible logic can lend. His conduct, so inspired and so guided, completes the biography of that "highest type of man." A Christian and bequeaths to his children the most precious of human legacies - the memory of a just man made perfect.
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
BREVITIES
The regular train from the Creek and special from Cumberland Thursday brought a host of people to attend the funeral of the late Owen Hitchins. Everybody knew him.
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
Owen Hitchins was a third degree member of Fraternity Council No. 659, American Legion of Honor, of this place. From this Fraternity his heirs will receive $2000.00
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
John H. Lindley, of Washington D.C. was the guest several days this week of Howard Hitchens. He is a prominent government clerk and a most affable gentleman.
Adam J. Hitchins born 12/1869 in Frostburg, Maryland son of Owen and Elizabeth Jeffries Hitchins he was not in the 1880 census so most likely died by then. Eva G. Hitchins born 1873 in Frostburg, Maryland to Owen and Elizabeth Jeffries Hitchins.
Adam Hitchins born 4/1887 in Frostburg, Maryland to Owen and Nannie Powell Hitchins.
He & Elizabeth and her brother James arrived July 5, 1852 on the Ship Shackamaxon from Liverpool, England, coming to Allegany County and staying in Frostburg untl their deaths. He was 62 at the time of his death.
His Father was John Hitchen, Mother Hannah
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL
MARCH 25, 1893
SUDDEN DEATH OF A LEADING CITIZEN
Not many people retired Monday night knowing that the members of a prominent family in town were bending in helpless grief over the dead boy of a tender husband and father. The next morning, however, the sad news.."Owen Hitchins Is Dead" spread rapidly and expressions of genuine sorrow were universal.
Mr. Hitchins first complained Sunday afternoon, but no special notice was evoked from the family until about 9:30 o'clock Monday evening, when the pains in his chest became so acute that his brother, A.E. Hitchins, advised retirement and assisted him upstairs to bed. Mr. A.E. Hitchins, apprehending no serious result left for the night. The patient, however, grew steadily worse until death came to his relief at 10:30 o'clock. Mr. Hitchins was perfectly conscious, and like those around him, unaware of the grave nature of his illness. He walked with his son, Gladstone, until the crisis came-the climacteric moment when the heart, convulsed, suddenly ceased to beat. Dr. J. Marshall Price was present, but beyond administering the usual remedies was of course unable to stay the inevitable.
Mr. Hitchins was born May 25, 1831, at a village situated on the Bristol Channel, county Ambroth, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, and was therefore nearly 62 years old. He came to the United States in 1852, landing in Philadelphia July 4 and settled in Frostburg a few days later. He began work during September following with his brother-in-law, James Jeffries, in Borden Mine, the late George Tennant then in charge. Here he continued to work until 1865 when he engaged in butchering, an avocation pursued until after the civil war broke out. In April 1861 he took a sub-contract from Batelle & Evans to furnish fresh meats to the United States Army operating in West Virginia and Maryland. In 1862 he entered a partnership with George D. Evans, of Morgantown, W. Va. under the name and style of Evans & Hitchins. This firm furnished fresh meats to the United States Army variously commanded by Gen's Kelly, shields, Schenck, Milroy, Landers and Col's Mulligan and Hayes, the last named after President of the United States. The firm dissolved in 1864 when the partnership of Hitchins Bros., consisting of Owen and Adam E. Hitchins, was established to conduct business of general merchandise in Frostburg, the brothers having purchased the stock and leased the store-room of J.H. Hoblitzell & Co. Twenty-seven years of successful business life followed until Feb. 5, 1891 the firm dissolved so far as its mercantile business was concerned and gave place to "The Hitchins Bros. Company."
Meanwhile in 1882 Mr. Hitchins withdrew from the somewhat congenial work of the store and assumed charge of the National Coal Company's mine, which the firm had leased and worked it until all the coal was taken out. A tract of coal land, leased from the George's Creek Coal and Iron company, was next exhausted, although he had ere while become the prime projector of the movement which resulted in the acquirement of a lease of about 250 acres if coal land at Carlos and the organization of the Barton and George's Creek Valley Coal Company. This company comprised then, as now, some of the wealthiest, most experienced and solid men in the coal trade. The stockholders are the Hon. Lloyd Lowndes, H. Crawford Black, Capt. John Sheriden, John Wilson, Adam E. Hitchins and now the estate of Owen Hitchins. From the beginning until his death, Mr. Hitchins held the office of Superintendent, a position for which his early practical experience and later business development fitted him in an eminent degree.
At the time of his death he was the Treasurer of the Frostburg Gas and Electric Light Company, whose directors at a meeting, held Thursday. adopted a paper attesting their estimate of him. It is appended.
Resolved: That the Directors of this company desire to spread upon the minutes their sense of loss they sustain individually and as a company in the death of Mr. Owen Hitchins. Connected with the company as he had been as a stockholder from its inception and for many years as adviser and Director, he displayed in the management of its affairs that same sterling fidelity, intelligent conservation and well-directed energy which made him a wise counsellor, a good citizen and a trusty friend, and which will make his loss one that will be felt not only by his business associates, but by his city, his county and his adopted state.
He was also a Trustee of Public School No. 1 at the time of his death.
In the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he was a member for many years, he held official station for long term. One of the leading promoters and builders of the present splendid edifice, he always, looked upon its walls and tower with the pride of one who felt he had to the extent of his ability symbolized here "the building not made with hands."
The Journal enjoys particularly fond reason for testifying of him that he was a friend indeed to those whom he esteemed worthy of his favor. From the first to the last he was a strong, substantial well-wisher of the paper, and with his surviving brother, Adam E. Hitchins, the editor gratefully accounts the two as a combination whose multiplied testimonials of goodwill have never shown the shadow of turning.
Mr. Hitchins home was a place of pleasantness. To a large number he was a trusted counsellor, and to whom he always gave sympathetic audience. To his wife he was the faithful, affectionate husband, to his children the wise, firm, yet indulgent parent. These will miss him as no others will.
Mr. Hitchins immediate survivors are his wife, five sons, two daughter, two brothers and one sister. Of the sons three are infants. The oldest son J. H. Hitchens, is the resident agent of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroad company, the second, W.E. Gladstone, is the chief clerk resident of the Barton and George's Creek Valley Coal Company. The elder brother, Adam E. is the surviving chief of both the Hitchins Bros' firm and company and John, manifest clerk at Carlos mines. His sister is Mrs. William Williams, of this place.
The funeral took place Thursday afternoon, Rev. H.S. France, of Baltimore, preaching an appropriate sermon. A large attendance and closed doors of all business houses evinced the popular regret and sympathy. The active pallbearers were Messrs, J.J. Hoblitzell and W.T. Oats, of Meyersdale, Capt. John Sheriden, of Mt. Savage; C. Roberts, A. Stewart, A.J. Willison, F.C. Beall and J.B Oder. The honorary were Hon's John Douglas of Lonaconing and Lloyd Lowndes of Cumberland; Messrs Thomas Malloy of Mt. Savage; A. Hixon of Philadelphia; A.C. Black and Charles Frick of Baltimore; L.M. Hamilton of Cumberland; Duncan Sinclair of Midlothian; D. Armstrong and William Brown of Frostburg.
Eight beautiful floral designs were contributed by friends and borne by Messrs. Daniel Krapf, T.A. Sullivan, H.S. Keller, James Thomas, Charles Stewart, Harry Metzger, William Edwards and Edward Gross.
The most elaborate of these are described for the Journal as follows:
Pillow: Bride Roses, Lillies and Lily of the Valley................D. Annan
Anchor: Roses and Lily of the Valley........W.R. Percy
Easel: With Floral Sickle and Sheaf..........W.C. Devecmon
Wreath.....Easter Lillies, Hyacinth, etc...............Mrs. Marion Spear
Anchor and Cross: Motto "My Friend" .....John Chambers
Scroll of Honor: With initials of Immortelles, O.H......J.B. Oder
The body was interred in the family lot, Allegany Cemetery, Rev. Messrs, Van Arsdale, France and Britt reading the words committing it to earth until the just shall rise in the resurrection. So passed away one who illustrated in a modest way what is possible of attainment to men of strong intellectuality. Since he was seven years of age he had never attended school, yet her grew to be a tireless reader of the best modern literature. The Library collected through forty years of discriminating selection and rejection is believed to be the choicest assemblage of intellectual achievements in the county. He had read and re-read the most thoughtful, and digested the most profound until it mattered little what topic arose he was always ready with some apt and conclusive observation from some standard literary oracle. He was an accurate judge of style and loved the pregnant fluency of writers of the Macauley type. Carlyle he called "jerky" and in general his criticisms accorded with those of expert doctors of rhetoric. Much of his reading was theological, whence he strengthened the strong religious bias with which his life began. His faith in the immortality of mankind and the endless triumph of a food life grew up in his mental constitution with all the strength , infallible logic can lend. His conduct, so inspired and so guided, completes the biography of that "highest type of man." A Christian and bequeaths to his children the most precious of human legacies - the memory of a just man made perfect.
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
BREVITIES
The regular train from the Creek and special from Cumberland Thursday brought a host of people to attend the funeral of the late Owen Hitchins. Everybody knew him.
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
Owen Hitchins was a third degree member of Fraternity Council No. 659, American Legion of Honor, of this place. From this Fraternity his heirs will receive $2000.00
FROSTBURG MINING JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1893
John H. Lindley, of Washington D.C. was the guest several days this week of Howard Hitchens. He is a prominent government clerk and a most affable gentleman.
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