Hitchcock, Frederick H.

Born in Boston in 1867, Frederick Hitchcock's career as a writer and publisher was just beginning when he wrote Handbook of Amherst in 1891. A graduate of Amherst College, Hitchcock would eventually move to New York City, where he published numerous genealogies and town histories. In 1901, he founded the Grafton Press. There he edited a book titled The Building of a Book: A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing (1906). Other books he published included Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miner: A Seam of Folklore Which Once R...