Biographies:   Rev. Thomas L. HANCOCK, Rice Lake Township, Barron Co., WI 

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Rev. Thomas L. Hancock, retired Methodist Episcopal clergyman, living in Rice
Lake, was born in Ohio, of New England ancestry. Of pious parents, he early
became interested in things religious, and after receiving the proper
education and training he was duly ordained, and started preaching. For over 
thirty years he preached, occupying pulpits in various parishes in central 
and southern Illinois.  When he retired from the ministry he took up farming 
near Covington, Tenn. In 1919 he came to Rice Lake and bought the Joseph 
Renville farm of 333 acres in sections 13 and 24, Rice Lake Township, and 
now known as the Spring Dale Farm. He at once turned this farm over to his 
son, Arthur L., and bought a home in the city where he now resides.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 493-494