Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2019,
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

    Please read USGenNet Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/
=========================================================================
USGenNet Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be
reproduced
in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization.
Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain
the consent of the transcriber prior to use.
Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so.
=========================================================================
Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
===========================================================================
SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        by Arthur St. Clair
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

  [573]

        WILLIAM HANCOCK, machinist, is a native of England, and was born
        May 22, 1818, and grew up and learned his trade there, and worked
        in the railroad shops there. He came to the United States in 1852,
        and lived in Pennsylvania two years; then came to Canada and worked
        in Toronto two years in railroad shops, and also in Stratford,
        London and Sarnia, as foreman Grand Trunk Railroad, and then went
        to Milwaukee and was there and in Iowa several years, having charge
        of railroad shops; then returned to Canada, and engaged in farming
        two years. In 1868, he came to Fort Gratiot and was appointed
        foreman of the locomotive shops, and held that position until 1880.
        In 1852, he married Miss ELIZABETH STEWART, a native of Perthshire,
	Scotland. She died in September, 1882, at Port Huron, and left two
	sons, GEORGE A., foreman machine shop, El Paso. Texas, and WILLIAM,
	machinist Grand Trunk Railroad.

===========================================================================