Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — The Hancock Fund. [ARTICLE]

The Hancock Fund.

Chicago Herald: The men who have subscribed to the Hancock fund have done a generous de a d most graciously, and their tho’tfulness and liberality will not be forgotten. After the battle of Gettysburg, General Meade, who was in chief commandon thatfield, was made the recipient of several handsome gifts from the people of Philadelphia and New York, and the presents which those cities gave to General Grant are well remembered. Having been the most conspicuous figure at Gettysburg, so far as the selection of the field and the exhibition of pe sonal valor in command were concerned, Hancock occupied with reference to Philadelphia and New York, whose fate depended on the issue of that great battle, a position as a L eal defender as well as a soldier of the republic at large. Hancock’s services, as well as those of thousands of other men on those July days, can never be measured in money, but the capitalists who now provide for his family manifest a spirit which it is pleasant to see and which will not be without its influence on the people everywhere.