Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other candidates were: James Mansfield Estabrook '34, of New York City, Henry Edward Holm '34, of Hancock, Michigan, John Moore Morse '34, of Brookline, George Hinckley Porter '34, of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, and Harold Sol Saxe '34, of Omaha, Nebraska...
Henry Edward Holm, of Hancock, Michigan...
...meantime the journal had disappeared. Apparently the whole trouble was the result of the carelessness of Hancock's coachman, who was told to bring six books, and forgot exactly half of them. The missing ledger lay in the Hancock stable from 1776 until 1863, when the building was torn down. Mr. C. L. Hancock, of the class of 1829, found the book and turned it over to the College Library on April...
This meant that for several years the Faculty received no salaries, despite repeated attempts to regain from Hancock the stocks, bonds, and accounts which had been placed in his custody when he assumed office. Finally, in April, 1775, Hancock announced his intention of settling his accounts, and for months after that the books and papers remained in the Hancock mansion in Boston...
...hazards in 1775 were followed in 1776 by Hancock's determination to bring his books to Philadelphia in a "light wagon." The papers were so transported, and were received in Philadelphia in May, 1776, where they remained until the following February, when they were brought back to Boston. The stocks and bonds were received at Harvard but no record has ever been found of the account books given into Hancock's custody...