Levi Standish Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: Levi Standish: a descendant of Miles Standish, who came over in the "Mayflower," was born in 1820, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and is of the seventh generation. He followed stone masonry and brick laying for about eight years. In 1846 he married Miss Margaret Cowan, a resident of the same county. Soon after this he learned milling, which he followed as his principal vocation. He lost his wife in 1872. In the spring of 1876 he purchased the mill property where he is now living. In December of the same year he married Miss Martha E. Stewart, who lived but five months after marriage.