Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life and Public Services of Winfield Scott Hancock
His father, Benjamin F. Hancock, of Norris town, was a teacher in high repute, who always interested himself in the progress of education; later, a lawyer of standing and position, recognized as a man of much capacity and broad views; and at all times 'a gentleman of perfect integrity and high intelligence.
The grandfather of General Hancock was a mariner who, when quite young, was with others captured at sea by the British, and for some time incarcerated in one of the English prisons.
General Hancock's mother, Elizabeth Hawks worth, was a prudent, Christian woman, whose fa ther was a Revolutionary soldier, whose uncle was an officer in the War of 1812, and whose grandfather was a soldier in the old French and Indian War, and captain in the American patriotic army, who died in camp in 1777.
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