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Ethan Hitchcock - Anti Damming:

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Ethan A. Hitchcock was the Secretary of Interior in 1907. He refused to violate the sanctity of national park. He turned down Phelan’s application for the park to be used as a reservoir site. He was succeeded as the secretary by James Garfield.









                      Ethan A. Hitchcock
  source: U.S. Army Center of Military Center

by Anoushka Bose, Junior Division, Individual Website