Henry L. Hitchcock

Rev. Henry Lawrence Hitchcock (October 31, 1813 – July 6, 1873) was an American minister and the third President of Western Reserve College, now Case Western Reserve University. He was mayor of the village of Hudson, OH in 1861.

Hitchcock served as president of Western Reserve from 1855–1871, where he most notably pulled the insituiton of out debt and brought on chemist Edward Morley as a professor. Hitchcock was also the Professor of Christian Theology from 1855–1873, teaching until his death in 1873 of typhoid.

Hitchcock married Clarissa Ford. Together they had eleven children; four of which were graduates of Western Reserve College.