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Hitt Robert Roberts (16.01.1834 – 20.09.1906)
Born in Urbana, Ohio. His father was a priest. In 1837 the family moved to Mount Morris, Illinois. There Hitt was educated first at the seminary. and then at DePaul University. Hitt was one of the first who mastered the shorthand that was useful to him in life and determined his fate. He became very close to the future president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, while Lincoln served as a lawyer. In subsequent years, Hitt held administrative and government positions under various US presidents: he was private secretary to Senator Oliver P. Morton, first secretary of the US embassy in Paris, assistant secretary of state James G. Blaine under President James A. Garfield, member of the House of Representatives, chairman of the Committee in foreign affairs. In 1898 by President W. McKinley Hitt was appointed a member of the commission to form a government in the Hawaiian Islands. In his later years, he was a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
He was buried with his parents at Oakwood Cemetery in Mount Morris, Illinois. Cape (Hill) in the northeast of the island of La Ronsier in the archipelago of Franz Josef Land. Named in 1899 by the American expedition of W. Wellman. |
