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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Dr. N. C. Hancock is well known in this region as a successful medical practitioner, having been located here ever since the year of 1874. His birth occurred in Missouri in 1850, he being the second of a family of twelve children born to the marriage of F. D. Hancock and Mary Spencer, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Missouri. Mr. Hancock has followed farming throughout life, and for over thirty years has been a resident of Crawford County. His father, Benjamin Hancock, removed from his native State to Tennessee and from there to Missouri in 1829, and made a settlement near Washington in St. Charles County. He became an extensive tiller of the soil, and on property which he had purchased there he made his home until his death, which occurred about 1854. The mother's father, William Spencer, came to this region about 1820. Dr. N. C. Hancock was reared to a farm life, receiving a good practical education in the schools near his home, but in 1869 began the study of medicine, and after becoming sufficiently well posted, he entered a medical institution of St. Louis, which he attended one term. In the spring of 1880 he graduated from the medical department of the University of Nashville, Tenn., and in 1888 took a post graduate course at St. Louis. In 1874 he had come to the northern part of Howard County, and began the practice of his profession, but in 1870 he removed to Centre Point, and in 1882 to New Hope, Pike County, Ark. He returned to this county in 1887, and in January, 1890, settled in the town of Nashville, where he is at present residing. He has become well known throughout this section, and in the management of the cases which have come under his care he has been remarkably successful. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Centre Point Lodge No. 87, and Hill Chapter No. 24. He was married in 1882 to Miss Ada Hill, a native of the Palmetto State, and a daughter of J. W. Hill, an early settler of Centre Point. To this union three children have been born: Pearl, Hugh and Lester. Mrs. Hancock is a member of the Baptist Church.

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