JOSEPH HANCOCK, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in England in 1829; he came to America in 1854, settling in Missouri, in Holt County, where he had built a brewery.

In 1862, he went back to England; stayed until 1866, and then returning to America spent that year on the plains, and April 2, 1867, he settled at his present place, on which there were then a number of old Morman huts, which had gone to ruin. From that time, he has been improving his place by planting orchards, etc.

Mr. Hancock was married, in 1853, in Wales, to Letitia Stanley, born in England. Mr. Hancock was educated in England, and went to Wale when he was about sixteen years old. He has a brother and sister living in Utah, being all his relatives in America. In England, he has three sisters and one brother. One brother died in Wales a few years ago.

Mrs. Hancock has seven sisters and three brothers in England, and one sister dead.

Mr. and Mrs. Hancock have one daughter and three sons. Their daughter, Mary E., is married to Henry Bateman, living in Boomer Township, Pottawattamie Co., where he is now farming; Joseph H., twenty-two years old; Charles B., twenty years old; and John, seventeen years old, all living at home. One son is buried in Missouri.

Mr. Hancock has always had to depend on his own resources. He was doing a good business in Missouri and lost it during the war. Since coming to his present place, he has made a good property. He came to this country as a Morman, coming with Mormans to New Orleans; thence to Holt County, MO., where he abandoned them and their religion. Mr. Hancock is a Democrat.