User:Jodihitchcockbenson

Lawrence Sill Hitchcock (b. 1898, d. 1983). born in Benson, VT of Charles Edward Hitchcock. Grandson of Henry Lawrence Hitchcock, President of Western Reserve College. (see Wikipedia article on Henry Lawrence Hitchcock). Information is from "The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family" published by Carpenter & Morehoouse, Amherst, MA, 1894. Lawrence Hitchcock graduated Junior Phi Beta Kappa, Yale, class of 1919. Taught at the Los Alamos Ranch School (LARS) from the fall of 1919 until called up for WWII in 1939. Headmaster of LARS from 1926-1942, when the school was closed by the US government prior to the takeover of Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project. Served in WWI in the Army. First Secretary-General of the Interamerican Defense Board - the precursor of the Pan-American Union. Later instrumental in the founding of the CIA. Married Barbara Jean Singley 1946. Two children - Charles Jonathan and Josephine Elizabeth.