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Encyclopedia Britannica



HANCOCK

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 909 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HANCOCK , a city of Houghton county, Michigap, U.S.A., on
Portage
  Lake, opposite Houghton. Pop. (1890) 1772; (1900) 4050, of whom 1409 were foreign-born; (1904) 6037; (1910) 8981. Hancock is served by the
Mineral
  Range, the Copper Range, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, and the Duluth,
South
  Shore &
Atlantic
  railways (the last two send their trains in over the
Mineral
  Range tracks), and by steamboats through the
Portage
  Lake Canal which connects with Lake Superior. Hancock is connected by a
bridge
  and an electric line with the
village
  of Houghton (pop. in 1910, 5113), the county-seat of Houghton county and the seat of the Michigan College of Mines (opened in 1886). Hancock has three parks, and a marine and general
hospital
 
    See Also:
. The city is the seat of a Finnish Lutheran Seminarythere are many Finns in and near Hancock, and a Finnish newspaper is published here. Hancock is in the Michigan copper regionthe Quincy, Franklin and Hancock mines are in or near the cityand the mining, working and shipping of copper are the leading
industries
 ; among the city's manufactures are mining machinery, lumber, bricks and beer. The municipality owns and operates the water-works. The electric-lighting plant, the gas plant and the
street
  railway are owned by private corporations. Hancock was settled in 1859, was incorporated as a
village
  in 1875, and was chartered as a city in 1903.


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