wealthiest man in Alabama before feeling the effects of the Panic of 1837. On August 11, 1839, Hitchcock succumbed to yellow fever during one of the worst epidemics of that disease in Mobile's history. References Sources William H. Brantley, Jr., "Henry Hitchcock of Mobile, 1816-1839." The Alabama Review V (January, 1952):3 Darell E. Bigham, From the Green Mountains to Tombigbee: Henry Hitchcock in Territorial Alabama, 1817–1819," The Alabama Review XXVI (July, 1973):209 1792 births 1839 deaths 19th-century American judges Alabama Attorneys General Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama Politicians from Burlington, Vermont Secretaries of State of Alabama