"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN
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MATTHEW T. HANCOCK, druggist at Morgantown, was born May 1, 1849, in
Harrison County, Ind., and is the third of the seven children of Benjamin H.
and Margaret A. (Senssensney) Hancock, the former a native of Tennessee and
of Irish, the latter of Virginia and of German descent, who now reside in
Washington, this State. Matthew was reared a farmer, and continued to labor
as such until he was eighteen years of age, when he engaged as salesman at
Bloomfield, and remained in that employment more than two years, afterward
at Bowling Green, and then began business on his own account in Lancaster,
Owen County, with a stock of drugs,and continued this two years. After
disposing of this stock, he became a salesman for Robinson & Co., of Terre
Haute, for one year. July, 1880, he came to Morgantown and engaged in his
present enterprise, in which he has been signally successful. Mr. Hancock
has always been a diligent student and a close observer. May 3, 1882, he
married Miss Effie C. Johnson, of Spencer, a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Mr. Hancock belongs to the Masonic fraternity. He has
the promise of becoming a leading business man of his section, having begun
business with but $50, and being now worth probably $5,000.
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