Hanback, Lewis – Handy, Levi Irving
Hanback, Lewis
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 27, 1839, in Winchester, Ill. He served three and a half years in the union army during the war of the rebellion. He was probate judge of Shawnee county, Kan., for four years; was assistant United States attorney for the district of Kansas for more than two years; and in 1879 was appointed receiver of public moneys at Salina, Kan. He was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress as a republican.
Hancher, John William
educator, clergyman, was born April 9, 1856, near Freedom, Ohio. During six years of his pastorates in Kansas and Iowa he pursued his studies, and in 1888 graduated from the Dakota School of Mines. He has traveled extensively in Europe and America; and is a man of strong will-power and untiring perseverance. Dr. Hancher is the founder of the Black Hills college of Hot Springs, S. D.; and was its president from its organization in 1889. He has lectured extensively through the west; has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church since 1889; and since March 15, 1897, has been pastor of the Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal church of Kansas City, Mo.
Hanchett, Henry G
musician, composer, was born Aug. 29, 1853. He is a successful concert pianist; and has been director of various musical societies in New York.
Hanchett, Luther
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 25, 1825, in Portage county, Ohio. He was four years district attorney for Portage county in his adopted state; and from 1856 to 1860 was a member of the Wisconsin senate. In 1860 he was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the thirtyseventh congress. He died Nov. 26, 1862, in Madison, Wis.
Hanchett, M. W
musician, inventor, was born in Hartford county, Conn. For many years he has been conductor of music and organist in Syracuse, N. Y. He is the inventor of a tone-sustaining pedal for the pianoforte, now used by piano artists.
Hancock, Anson Uriel
author.
He is the author of The Genius of Galilee, an historical novel; John Auburntop, Novelist; and Old Abraham Jackson, a Nebraska Story.
Hancock, George
soldier, congressman, was born in 1755, in Virginia. He served as a colonel in the revolution.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1797. He died Aug. 1, 1820, in Fotheringay, Va.
Hancock, John
merchant, statesman, was born Jan. 12, 1737, in Quincy, Mass. In 1766 he went into the general assembly of the state, where he became distinguished for his ability. In 1774 he was unanimously elected president of the provincial congress, and having been elected delegate to the continental congress in 1775, was chosen president of that a body, serving as such two years and a half, and as a delegate from 1775 to 1780, and from 1785 to 1786.
He was the first man to sign the declaration of independence, and his peculiar signature is universally known. He also signed the articles of confederation; was a member of the convention to form a state constitution; and was governor of Massachusetts for five years, after the adoption of its constitution, and, under the federal constitution from 1789 until his death. He died Oct. 8, 1793.
Hancock, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1824, in Jackson county, Ala. He was elected to the district bench of Texas; and served as judge until 1855, when he resigned. He was a member of the state legislature in 1860 and 1861; refused to take the oath of allegiance to the confederate states, and was expelled. He was elected a member of the state constitutional convention of 1866.
He was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses; and was re-elected to the forty-fourth congress; and was also elected a representative from Texas to the forty-eighth congress.
Hancock, William A
lawyer, jurist, civil engineer, was born May 17, 1831, in Barre, Mass. He received his education in the public and private schools of his native city and at Leicester academy. In 1853 he moved to Iowa, and subsequently crossed the plains with a band of cattle, settling in Sacramento valley, Cal., where he engaged in the dairy and cattle business. During the civil war he enlisted in the seventh regiment California volunteer infantry; and was subsequently commissioned second lieutenant of the first regiment Arizona volunteers, and was honorably discharged as first lieutenant.
In 1871 he was appointed district attorney of Maricopa county, which position he filled until 1875, when he was appointed probate judge for four years. In 1884 he was elected district attorney; and now practices his profession at Phoenix, Ariz.
He surveyed and located many of the irrigation canals of the valley; was the promoter and organizer of the Agua Fria Water and Land company; and has been its secretary, chief engineer and general superintendent since the organization of that company.
Hancock, Winfield Scott
soldier, was born Feb. 14, 1824, in Montgomery square, Pa. He graduated from the West Point Military academy in 1844; and for the two years following he was second lieutenant of the sixth infantry. He served with distinction in the Mexican war; and in 1861 was commissioned brigadiergeneral. For his services he received a resolution of thanks passed by congress in 1866. In 1880 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United States. He died Feb. 9, 1886, on Governor's Island, N. Y.
Hand, Alfred
lawyer, jurist, was born March 26, 1835, in Honesdale, Pa.
He has been presiding judge of common pleas, and justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania at Scranton.
Hand, Augustus C
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1803, in Stoneham, Vt. He settled at Elizabethtown, N. Y.; and was surrogate of his county from 1831 to 1839. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1839 to 1841; and a member of the state senate from 1845 to 1848. He was a justice of the supreme court from 1848 to 1856, after which he was wholly devoted to the practice of his profession. He died March 8, 1878, in Elizabethtown, N. Y.
Hand, Daniel
merchant, philanthropist, was born July 16, 1801, in Madison, Conn. He became a merchant in Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S. C., where: he accumulated a fortune. He gave a high-school building to his native town; and in 1888 gave $1,000,000 to the American Missionary association, to be held in trust for educational purposes. He died Dec. 17, 1891, in Guilford, Conn.
Hand, Daniel Whilldin
surgeon, educator, was born Aug. 18, 1834, in New Jersey. Since 1872 he has been president of the Minnesota board of health; in 1883 was appointed professor of surgery in the university of Minnesota, and is one of the founders of the State Medical society.
Hand, Edward
congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress in 1784 and 1785.
Hand, Edward
soldier, was born Dec. 31, 1744, in Ireland. He was promoted a colonel in 1776; engaged in the battles of Long Island and Trenton, and was appointed brigadier-general. He died Sept. 3, 1802, in Rockford, Pa.
Hand, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, was born May 1, 1834, in Elizabethtown, N. Y.
He practiced law with his father in Elizabethtown till his removal in 1860 to Albany. He was corporation counsel for the city of Albany in 1863, and subsequently a judge. He died May 21, 1886, in Albany, N. Y.
Handley, George
soldier, state legislator, governor, was born Feb. 9, 1752, in England. During the whole revolutionary war he was actively engaged in South Carolina and Georgia. He was repeatedly a member of the Georgia state legislature, of which state he served as governor in 1788. He died Sept. 17, 1793, in Rae's Hall, Ga.
Handley, William A
merchant, congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1834, in Franklin, Ga. He was for many years a mail contractor; and was engaged in mercantile pursuits in the service of the confederate states, as a civil and military officer from 1861 to 1865. He was elected to the forty-second congress as representative from Alabama.
Handy, Alexander Hamilton
jurist, was born Dec. 25, 1809, in Princess Anne, Md. He was a judge of the high court of errors from 1853 till 1867, when he resigned. He died Sept. 12, 1883, in Canton, Miss.
Handy, James A
bishop, was born Dec. 22, 1826, in Maryland. In 1892 he was ordained bishop, his district comprising methodist episcopal churches in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.
Handy, Levi Irving
educator, journalist, lecturer, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1861, in Berlin, Md. He attended public and private schools in Maryland and New York; taught school in Somerset county, Md., and came to Smyrna, Del., to teach in 1881. He was superintendent of free schools in Kent county in 1887- 90; was chairman of the democratic state central committee in 1892-96; and was editorial writer on Wilmington Every Evening in 1894-95. He is a popular lecturer and has since 1890 delivered lectures in lyceum courses in many sections of the country. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.