A very spirited and constructive citizen of Frostburg, he was a successful merchant and realtor as well as a farmer. He was raised in Frostburg and attended Bryant and Stratton Business College in Baltimore. In 1897, he and his father in law, William R. Percy, opened the grand Hotel Gladstone on Main Street in Frostburg. 100 rooms, a cafe and barber shop. Bellboys, a petting zoo, a cockfighting pit and it's own jail. Apparently unsuccessful, it sold in 1903 to William Gunter. It survives today. Altered, but not so much as to loose it's charm and elegance, the staircase is famous and deservedly so. Many of the amenities of yore are preserved as curiosities of today. Gladstone served as State and County tax collector for two years, road director and trustee of Bealls High School, and for many years had been an official of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he had been a member since early youth. Politically, he was a Republican. High in Masonry, belonged to Mountain Lodge, and Boumi Temple of Baltimore, and he was both a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. To all of his responsibilities Mr. Hitchins brought unquestioned honesty of purpose, and thorough grasp of public utilities, a combination of qualities which has made his services of great constructive value to the community in which his life had been spent, and his successes were attained.
A very spirited and constructive citizen of Frostburg, he was a successful merchant and realtor as well as a farmer. He was raised in Frostburg and attended Bryant and Stratton Business College in Baltimore. In 1897, he and his father in law, William R. Percy, opened the grand Hotel Gladstone on Main Street in Frostburg. 100 rooms, a cafe and barber shop. Bellboys, a petting zoo, a cockfighting pit and it's own jail. Apparently unsuccessful, it sold in 1903 to William Gunter. It survives today. Altered, but not so much as to loose it's charm and elegance, the staircase is famous and deservedly so. Many of the amenities of yore are preserved as curiosities of today. Gladstone served as State and County tax collector for two years, road director and trustee of Bealls High School, and for many years had been an official of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he had been a member since early youth. Politically, he was a Republican. High in Masonry, belonged to Mountain Lodge, and Boumi Temple of Baltimore, and he was both a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. To all of his responsibilities Mr. Hitchins brought unquestioned honesty of purpose, and thorough grasp of public utilities, a combination of qualities which has made his services of great constructive value to the community in which his life had been spent, and his successes were attained.
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