HANCOCK

a village of Michigan, im Houghton co. It is on the Copper Range and the Mineral Range railroads, and on Lake Portage. Transportation facilities to Lake Superior are givem by a ship canal. Within the limits of the town are several important copper mines. It has also smelting works, foundries, machine shops and other industries. It is the seat of a Finnish college. Pop. 1920, 7,527. American statesman. B. Jan. 23,1737; d. in Quincy, Ma ., Oct. 8, 17938; graduating from Harvard College in 1754 he joined his uncle in busine and inherited £80,000 on the latter’s death in 1764. He was several times elected & member of the Ma achusetts General Court. The seizure of his sloop ‘Liberty* in 1768 caused the riot in which the royak customs commi ioners were nearly killed. After the ‘Boston Ma acre’ of 1770 he was one of a committee who requested the governor to remove the troops. His oration at the funeral of the victims gave such offence to the governor that orders were given to arrest him and Samuel Adams. They were both members of the Provincial Congre over which Hancock presided. fter the Concord fight Gage offered pardon to all rebels but Hancock and Adams. He was chosen president of the Continental Congre in 1775 and signed the Declaration of Independence the next year. Resigning the presidency in 1777, he remained a member until 1780, and was again elected 1785-1786. Appointed a major-general to command Ma achusetts forces in the Rhode Island Expedition of 1780, he was member of the tion and governor in 1780 and annually re-elected except 17838-1785-° until his death. President of the convention of 1788 that adopted a Federal constitution. (1824-1886), American soldier. B, in Montgomery Square, Pa., February 14, 1824; d. at Governor’s Island, New York Harbor, Feb. 9, 1886. Graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1844 after service in the west he made a good record in the Mexican War and in 1855 Was quarter-master at Fort Myers, Florida, eee: the Seminole trouble. In 1857-1858 he was on the Kansas border and quarter-master Southern Dist. of California 1859-1861; as brigadier-general of volunteers in the Civil War he commanded a brigade in the Army of the Potomac and fought at eneral U. 8. Volunteers in Nov. 1862, he led a division at Fred ericks burg which lost in that fight 2,015 out of §,000 men. At Chancellorsville,May 5-4 1863 he saved the Federals at a critical time and was soon called to command the Second Corps. At Gettysburg, July 2, he commanded the Federal left wing and July 3 the left centre. In a great Oon federate attack Hancock lost 4,000 out of 6,000 men, and was shot from his horse. He was appointed major neral 1866 and commanded military epts. Mi ouri, Texas, Louisiana, 18661868, and Dakota 1869-1872. He ran for president in 1880 and was defeated by Garfield, the vote being 4,454,416 to 4,444,9