First Tax Payers for Hancock County
This is a representative list of some of the earliest settlers in what is now Hancock County.
From the original tax records at the county court house the following names of the first tax payers are taken.
1859 found the following names of: | | Avery, Anson | Bernard, John | Church, Cephas | | Church, Charles | Church, Orick | Church, Reuben | | Counsel, H. | Cowen, Cornelius | Cox, Abner | | Gilpin, William C. | Haskins, Benoni | Haskins, Jessie | | Hitchcock, Freeman | Holway, Edward | Hunt, Andrew | | Hunt, David F. | Irwin, Robert | Louppe, George | | Magill, Malcolm | Magill, Thomas | Overacker, Henry | | Parker, Perry | Rosecrans, M. P. | Rother, F. M. | | Stamp, Abner | Wheelock, Thomas | Williams, Abraham | | | | 1860 names that were added: | | Gilpin, Samuel | Gilpin, Stephen | Pritchard, C. D. | | Savogue, George | Thorp, Edgar |
| | | | 1861 names that were added: | | Brockway, H. N. | Buffin, C. W. | Butterfield, Andrew | | Culver, B. W. | Forbes, William | Troy, A. |
(Source: History of Winnebago County & Hancock County, Iowa, 1917)
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