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unusual facts about Hancock-Clarke House


Hancock-Clarke House

The Reverend John Hancock, grandfather of the American revolutionary leader of the same name, purchased this site in 1699.


A. A. Ames

In February 1903, he was arrested at the house of Rev. C. H. Chapin in Hancock, New Hampshire.

Alex Fielding

Fielding became CEO of encryption products company Ripcord Networks in 2004 with former Apple CEO, Gil Amelio, CTO, Hancock, and Wozniak on its board.

Arthur B. Hancock III

Through H-G-W Partners, Hancock owned and raced 1989 U.S. Horse of the Year Sunday Silence whose wins included the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Classic.

Arthur Hancock

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr., Arthur B. "Bull" Hancock (1910–1972), American horse breeder

Bactrocera invadens

Bactrocera invadens is similar to Bactrocera (Bactrocera) dorsalis (Hendel), from Southeast Asia and Bactrocera (Bactrocera) kandiensis (Drew and Hancock), from Sri Lanka.

Bernard Durning

He rose through the ranks of the studio as assistant to Edwin S. Porter, Charles Brabin, and John Hancock Collins.

Billy Hancock

Throughout his career, Hancock has played in backing bands for prominent musicians, including Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, blues guitarist Roy Buchanan, rockabilly Charlie Feathers, the Clovers, Amos Milburn, and country stars Dottie West and Jean Shepard.

Dave Hancock

Hancock was unable to secure any endorsements from PC caucus members, but was endorsed by Edmonton-Centre Conservative MP Laurie Hawn.

Delta Air Lines Flight 191

The August 26, 1985 issue of Jet magazine (page 7) reported that Jean Hancock, sister of famed jazz musician Herbie Hancock, died aboard the flight as well.

Eastlake, Seattle

Current notable Eastlake residents include wealthy insurance magnates-turned philanthropists Matthew and Julie Hancock, retired four-star General Andrew J. Kelly, and 2002 America's Cup runner-up Elleson Schurtz.

First Samurai

First Samurai stands at stud at the Hancock Family's Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

Florence E.S. Knapp

She was a descendant of Ebenezer Hancock, librarian of Harvard University and brother of John Hancock.

Fort Hancock – El Porvenir International Bridge

The Fort Hancock-El Porvenir International Bridge is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande connecting the United States-Mexico border cities of Fort Hancock, Texas and El Porvenir, Chihuahua.

Galton and Simpson

In October that year Hancock ended his professional relationship with the writers, and with Beryl Vertue who worked with the writers' at their agency Associated London Scripts.

After their association with Hancock had ended, they wrote a series of Comedy Playhouse (1961–62), ten one-off half-hour plays for the BBC.

George H. Covode

During the fall of 1862, the regiment was encamped on the north bank of the Potomac River near Hancock, Maryland, but soon participated in the fighting at Antietam, and later at Fredericksburg.

Hancock

John Hancock Tower, a building in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by the insurance firm

Hancock County, Maine

Hancock County is home to Acadia National Park (the only national park in Maine or the New England region, excluding the national sea shore on Cape Cod) and Cadillac Mountain (the highest point in Maine's coastal region).

Hancock Field

Santa Maria Public Airport (Capt. G. Allan Hancock Field), located near Santa Maria, California, United States

Syracuse Hancock International Airport (named for Clarence E. Hancock), located near Syracuse, New York, United States

Hancock Manor

In 1795, two years after John Hancock's death, the town of Boston purchased most of the estate for £4,000 and designated the pasture land as the site of the state's future capitol.

Hancock Rescue Squad

The Hancock Rescue Squad is a combined career and volunteer EMS/Rescue station located in the town of Hancock, Maryland, United States.

Hancock, Michigan

In 1860, the Portage Lake smelter opened in Hancock.

Hancock's Half Hour

In 1962, the show became the first imported programme to win a Jacob's Award following its transmission on Telefís Éireann, the Republic of Ireland's national TV station.

Harvey Hancock

After ten years of news, Hancock changed careers from journalism to the airline industry by taking a management position with United Airlines and Pan American World Airways.

Hunter Hancock

A recreated example of Mr. Hancock's program on Los Angeles' former R&B radio station KGFJ can be found on Ron Jacobs' "Cruisin' 1959" (Increase Records INCR 5-2004).

Jason Goldman

In 1999, Goldman was selected by jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter to be a member of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz where he toured the world and performed with a who’s who list of jazz icons (Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Roy Haynes, Kenny Barron, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Watson, to name a few).

Massachusetts Route 41

Route 41 ends just north of the Richmond-Pittsfield line at U.S. Route 20, just east of the Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock and southwest of Pittsfield's airport and city center.

Mel Hancock

In 1988, Hancock was elected as a Republican to the 101st and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving between January 3, 1989 and January 3, 1997.

Michael Simpson Culbertson

Second Lieutenant Culbertson then served with the First Artillery at Fort Preble in Portland, Maine, and Hancock Barracks in Houlton, Maine.

Moses Gill

The party system was still taking shape in the state, and the Federalists nominated Increase Sumner, while more populist factions that had previously supported Hancock and Adams nominated Gill and James Sullivan.

Municipal Court of Nauvoo

In June 1844, the Circuit Court for Hancock County charged Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and 15 other co-defendants with inciting a "riot" in the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor.

New Ashford, Massachusetts

To the west, Brodie Mountain runs along the western border of town, peaking in neighboring Hancock.

Phineas Banning

Banning was an avowed Unionist and was friends with Winfield Scott Hancock when Hancock was stationed in Los Angeles.

Princequillo

Retired after his four-year-old racing season, Princequillo was purchased by Arthur B. Hancock and sent to the Hancock family's Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County, Virginia and later to their Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

Reverend John Hancock

John Hancock, Jr. (1702 – 1744), colonial American clergyman and father of American politician John Hancock

John Hancock, Sr. (1671 – 1752), colonial American clergyman and paternal grandfather of American politician John Hancock

Sister Moon

"Sister Moon", a song by Sting from ...Nothing Like the Sun, covered by Herbie Hancock on Possibilities and by Ruslan Sirota on Ruslan

Stewart Levine

At seventeen Levine entered the famed Manhattan School of Music alongside noted musicians Herbie Hancock, Donald Byrd, and, most importantly, a young South African trumpet player by the name of Hugh Masekela.

Susan Thornton Glassell

Anne Ophelia Smith married Hancock Banning (1865–1925) son of Phineas Banning in 1890.

Tanya Alexander

Her departure from Moonbase Alpha was chronicled in the Powys Media novel, Space: 1999 The Forsaken by John Kenneth Muir (featuring a foreword by Prentis Hancock) in which the character reveals an unplanned pregnancy and fears that she will be have to have an abortion in light of the ban on new births on Alpha (i.e. Alpha Child, The Exiles); a small group of Alphans mutinies to settle with her on a habitable planet, led by Paul Morrow.

Tommy Hancock

In 1980 the Hancock family settled in Austin, Texas, where they found the local attitudes much to their liking.

U.S. Route 522

US 522 passes through the Ridge and Valley Province of the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania, connecting Hancock, Maryland on the Potomac River with McConnellsburg, Mount Union, Lewistown, Middleburg, and Selinsgrove on the Susquehanna River.

Western Maryland Rail Trail

In August 1990, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources purchased the right-of-way from 1/2 mile west of Fort Frederick State Park to Little Orleans through Hancock from CSX Transportation.

WKMJ

WKMJ-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to Hancock, Michigan, United States

WQRZ-LP

On August 14, 2001 Brice Phillips (KB5MPW), President of the Hancock County Amateur Radio Association, was granted a construction permit to build the first solar powered LPFM Broadcast Station, which combined Broadcasting with Amateur radio.


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