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Title Hitchins, Robert J.
Alternate title Hitchens, Robert J.
Date 1849-February 4, 1914
Description Robert J. Hitchins, proprietor of two lithographic firms in Philadelphia in the early to mid 1870s and a member of the Quaker City Council, was born in Whitehall, New York in 1849. His English parents moved the family to South Philadelphia by 1868, where two years later Hitchins partnered with George H. Douglas to form the lithography business of Hitchins & Douglas at 203 Race Street. The partnership dissolved after around a year, and by 1876 Robert had formed another business, Altemus & Hitchins, with book binder Alfred C. Altemus at 20 North Seventh Street.
By 1880 Hitchins had relocated with his family, including his wife Elizabeth (b. ca. 1858) and four children, to Boston, Ma. where he worked as a lithographer. Hitchins returned to Philadelphia with three Massachusetts-born children by 1887 and resided in South Philadelphia. In 1900 eleven children lived in the Hitchins household in South Philadelphia and Robert continued to work as a lithographer according to Philadelphia city directories and census data. He died on February 4, 1914.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Altemus, Alfred C.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900
Philadelphia City Directories, 1870-1894 (intermittently)
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 5, 1914