William Hancock and Isabella Brown Barker

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Husband William Hancock ¹

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           Born: 2 Aug 1831 - Plains, Luzerne Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Hancock (1793-1880) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Perkins (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 25 Sep 1873 3

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Wife Isabella Brown Barker ³

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         Father: Rev. Abel Gum Barker (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Phoebe Ann Brown (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Anna Mary Hancock ³

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2 M William James Hancock ³

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3 F Louise Barker Hancock ³

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General Notes: Husband - William Hancock

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During his early manhood and until middle life he lived in California, and later resided in Wyoming, PA, where he was engaged in various business enterprises, being one of the founders of the Wyoming Shovel Works and of the Wyoming terra cotta works. He was also interested in lumbering and as proprietor of a foundry and plow factory, and of general supply stores. He was the first burgess of Wyoming borough and later a member of the borough council. [CAB, 449]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 449.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 805.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 450.