Arthur Romaine Hitch

Was a member of the teaching staff at Rice Institute (now Rice University) in Houston, TX.

From "A Hitch Orchard", Daisy Hitch Davies, 1931: In 1930 was residing in Savannah, GA. At this date and from this place he sent me data for his immediate family.

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Educated - Washington College A.B. - N.S. 1911 Cornell University PHD. 1913 Cascudukka School Instructor, Chemistry 1908-10 Cornell University Instructor, Chemistry 1919-13 Solvoy Process Co., Syracuse, NY. resident chemist 1913-14. The Rice Institute, Houston, TX. Chemical Department Acting Director 1914-17. National Carbon Co., Cleveland, OH. Storage Battery Factory, Chief Chemist 1917-18. Ashland Iron and Mining Company, Ashland, KY. Chief Chemist 1918-19. E.I.du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, DE. Resident Chemist 1919-27. Cillican Chipley Co.,Chemical Director 1927 to present date 1930. Manager Pineland Products Co. 1920 to date(1930).

Author - Thermal Decomposition of Certain Inorganic Trinitrides.

Member - Sigma Chi; Gamma Alpha; American Chemical Society; Society of Test Materials.

Clubs - Rotary, Savannah, GA.

Hobbies - Fishing and boating.

In the Federal Census of 1920, Arthur R. Hitch is indicated in Sussex County, Delaware in a household as follows: - Arthur R. Hitch, age 35, born in MD - Isabella Hitch, age 29, born in MD - Robert A. Hitch, age 3, born in TX - Wilbur C., age 1, born in MD.

Arthur married Agnes Isabella Brotemarkle, daughter of Clinton Brotemarkle and Laura Jane Somerville, on 29 Dec 1914.¹ (Agnes Isabella Brotemarkle was born on 14 Nov 1890 in Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD,^{2 7 8 9} died on 10 Jan 1959 in Delaware Hospital, Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE ^{2 8} and was buried on 13 Jan 1959 in Riverview Cemetery, Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE ^{6 8}.)

The Brotemarkel family was living in Salisbury, MD at the time Arthur Hitch and Agnes Brotemarkle met and married.