HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



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and Susanna Pryor (Bacon) Hancock were 

 the parents of six children: i. Margaret 

 Bacon, born 9 mo. 16, 1833 ; married Wil- 

 liam B. Livezey, January 6. 1876, and died 

 l^ovember 13, 1895, without , issue. 2. 

 Charles West (the subject), born 6 mo. 

 19, 1835. 3. George W., born 3 mo. 2, 

 1837, died March 22, 1903 ; married Eliza- 

 beth James, May 7, 1862 ; issue, Henry J., 

 born August 18, 1865; Walter W., born 

 October 21, 1870; George B., born Decem- 

 ber 17, 1867; Clement who died in in- 

 fancy. 4. Albert, born 11 mo. 21, 1838, 

 died February 14, 1891 ; married Josephine 

 Kimes, April 12, 1871 ; issue, Francis Bacon 

 and Katie K. 5. Franklin died in infancy. 

 €. Mary Anna, born 10 mo. 14, 1848, died 

 December 20, 1886; married Charles A 

 Dixon, September 15, 1869; issue, Edward 

 C. and Susannah H. 



Charles West Hancock was educated in 

 the schools of Philadelphia, and on Feb- 

 ruary 22, 1852, entered the employ of Jenks 

 & Ogden, wholesale druggists in Phila- 

 delphia, where he proceeded to learn the 

 business. He also attended the Philadel- 

 phia College of Pharmacy, and graduated 

 there in March of 1857. On completing 

 his education he went to Trenton, New 

 Jersey, where he passed a year. Returning 

 to Philadelphia he purchased the drug store 

 of his former preceptor, and in 1861 sold 

 it to advantage. He then removed to West 

 Philadelphia and built up a large and profit- 

 able business in an establishment he con- 

 tinued to rent until 1876. In that year 

 be purchased a piece of ground and erected 

 thereon a place in which to carry on his 

 business, and a commodious residence. 

 His business continued to increase with 

 the growth of the section of the city in 

 which he was settled. He had the entire 

 <:onfidence of his profession and was 

 well known to be accurate and highly edu- 

 cated. In September, 1895, he retired from 

 active business and moved to Langhorne, 

 Bucks county, where he enjoys the advan- 

 tage and luxuries incident to the career of 

 a successful business man. He enjoys also 

 the warm esteem and the highest respect 

 of his fellowtownsmen, who have testified 

 their appreciation of them by electing him 

 to the town council, the presidency of the 

 board of health, and a number of local 

 offices. 



Dr. Hancock is a distinguished and 

 prominent member of the Masonic fratern- 

 ity, a member of Newtown Lodge, No. 

 427 ; Temple Chapter, No. 248 ; Philadel- 

 phia Commandery, No, 2; and is a thirty- 

 second degree member of the Ancient and 

 Accepted Scottish Rite. He is also a mem- 

 ber of Hamilton Lodge, No. 596, and Logan 

 Encampment, No. 83, I. O. O. F. ; of 

 Mantua Council, No. 22, O. U. A. M. ; 

 ^nd Mantua Degree Council, of Mohave 

 Tribe, No. 320, L O. R. M. ; Wenona 

 Council, No. I, Degree of Pocahontas: 

 William Penn Division, No. 143, Sons of 

 Temperance ; and is a past grand chaplain 

 <of the grand division of the Sons of Tem- 



perance of Pennsylvania, and also its grand 

 treasurer. He has been for fifteen years 

 a member of the board of managers of the 

 Odd Fellows' Home, and was for a time 

 treasurer of that institution. He is a past 

 officer of a41 the foregoing organizations 

 except Newtown Lodge, Temple Chapter, 

 Philadelphia Commandery and the Scottish 

 Rite bodies. He is a life member of the 

 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, a mem- 

 ber of the State Pharmaceutical Associa- 

 tion, and a life member of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association. Dr. Hancock 

 has been an extensive traveler both in 

 Europe and his native country. In politics 

 he is a Republican. 



CAPTAIN HENRY Y. PICKERING. 

 Among the first of the gallant boys in 

 blue to respond to the call of his country 

 when the bombardment of Fort Sumter 

 surprised and shocked the people of his 

 native state, was Captain Henry Y. Pick- 

 ering, of Lower Makefield township, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania. 



He was born in Buckingham town- 

 ship, April 20, 1831, and came of the 

 Quaker, non-combatant stock, being son 

 of Yeamans and Rachel (Beans) Picker- 

 ing, and great-great-grandson of Samuel 

 Pickering, of Solebury, who married 

 Marj- Scarborough in 1712, and settled 

 on part of the land of his father-in-law, 

 John Scarborough, in Solebury, where 

 he died 8 mo. 10, 1727. The children of 

 Samuel and Mary Scarborough Picker- 

 ing were: John, born 1714, died 2 mo. 

 I, 1787, married 1745, Hannah Dawes; 

 Isaac, born 12 mo. 23, 1716, married 1738, 

 Sarah Lupton; Samuel, born 1718, mar- 

 ried 1747, Grace Stackhouse ; William, born 

 1720, removed to Virginia; and Grace, who 

 married William Lupton. John, the eldest 

 son, settled on a portion of the Solebury 

 homestead and had the following children : 

 John, born 7 mo. 27, 1748, married Rachel 

 Duer, in 1771 ; Jesse, born 12 mo. 10, 1751, 

 married 1774, Ann Kemble; Hannah, mar- 

 ried Jonathan Johnson, and removed to 

 Lancaster county ; Hannah Dawes Picker- 

 ing, died 1796. 



John Pickering and Rachel Duer, grand- 

 parents of Captain Pickering, were the par- 

 ents of seven children; Joseph, married 

 Ann Watson, and removed to Chester 

 county, Pennsylvania; Benjamin, who re- 

 moved to Elmira, New York; Phineas, who 

 removed to North Carlonia, John, who was 

 blind ; William, who married Tabitha 

 Croasdale, and removed to Stroudsburg, 

 Pennsylvania ; Yeamans, married Rachel 

 Beans; Stacy, married Rachel Philips; and 

 Mercy, who married Robert Paist. 



Yeamans Pickering, father of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch, was a carpenter, though 

 he carried on farming in connection with 

 his trade. On his marriage with Rachel 

 Beans he settled in Upper MakefieM town- 

 ship, but having purchased a small farm 



