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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798–1870)

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. An American soldier and miscellaneous writer, grandson of the famous patriot Ethan Allen; born at Vergennes, VT, May 18, 1798; died at Hancock, GA, Aug. 5, 1870. A graduate of West Point, he served in the Florida War, in the Mexican War, and in the Civil War. He wrote: ‘The Doctrines of Swedenborg and Spinoza Identified’ (1846); ‘On the Sonnets of Shakespeare’ (1865); ‘On the Vita Nuova of Dante’ (1866); etc.