Gad Hitchcock
{{Short description|American physician, 1788–1837}}
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| birth_date = April 18, 1788
| birth_place = Pembroke, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| death_place = North Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.
| resting_place = Old Baptist Cemetery, Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.
| occupation = Physician
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| spouse = Mary Lincoln Thaxter
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Gad Hitchcock (April 18, 1788 – November 17, 1837) was a 19th-century American physician. He was a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Early life and education
Hitchcock was born on April 18, 1788, in Pembroke, Massachusetts, to Gad Hitchcock and Sage Bailey.
He graduated the Medical School of Maine in the class of 1825.
Career
Hitchcock took over the practice of the recently deceased Ammi Ruhamah Mitchell at today's Mitchell House at 333 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine. He remained there, as the town's only physician,Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Mrs. Edward Hitchcock until his own death. He was succeeded by Eleazer Burbank.[https://www.yarmouthmehistory.org/the-national-register-of-historic-places/ "The National Register of Historic Places"] – Yarmouth Historical Society{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=78000325}}|title=NRHP nomination for Mitchell House|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2016-01-12}}
Personal life
Hitchcock married Mary Lincoln Thaxter (1790–1875), daughter of Gridley Thaxter and granddaughter of Benjamin Lincoln of the Revolutionary Army. They had the following children: Bela (1811), Lavinia (1813), Henry Bailey (1814), Sarah Lincoln (1816), Rufus William (1818), Gad Jr. (1820), Mary Shattuck (1822), Gridley (1824), Benjamin (1826), Harriet Bailey (1828), Susan Harris (1830), Ann Blanchard (1833) and Samuel Sweetser (1835).Old Times: A Magazine Devoted to the Preservation and Publication of Documents Relating to the Early History of North Yarmouth, Maine, Volumes 5-8, Augustus W. Corliss (1881), p. 1155
Both he and his son, Gad Jr., were elected fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society.Medical Communications, Volume 4, Massachusetts Medical Society (1829), p. xiii Gad Jr. became a noted painter who added decorative touches on shipmasters' cabins down at Yarmouth's harbor.Images of America: Yarmouth, Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.22
Death
Hitchcock died in North Yarmouth on November 17, 1837, aged 49.General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine, Bowdoin College (1912), p. 320The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 17 (1837), p. 275 His wife survived him by 38 years.