William Jerome Hancock

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Genealogical and Family History of the STATE OF MAINE
Compiled under the editorial supervision of George Thomas Little, A. M., Litt. D.
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY New York - 1909.
William Jerome, eldest child of Orrin Jerome and Mary A. (Rummery) Hancock, was born Dec. 14, 1867, in Albion, Maine, and obtained his elementary and secondary education in the public schools of Skowhegan, Maine. He subsequently entered the Univ. of Maine, at Orono, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1888 and Master of Science, 1892. In 1889 he was graduated from Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Manchester, N. H. He early engaged in teaching in the public schools of Maine and was subsequently professor of chemistry in Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, from 1890 to 1892; he was teacher of science in Starkey Seminary at Lakemont, New York, 1892-93; and professor of chemistry in Antioch College from 1893 to 1898. Since 1898 he has continued to the present time as teacher of chemistry in Erasmus Hall high school of Brooklyn, New York. He is an independent in politics, and is identified with Bedford Council, No. 655, Royal Arcanum, of Brooklyn. He is a member of the Omega Mu Chapter of Phi Gama Delta fraternity.
With his family he is identified with the Second Unitarian Church of Brooklyn.
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the Chemistry Teachers' Club of New York, of which he was president for the year 1906-07, and the New York State Science Teachers' Association.
Professor Hancock has made a number of improvements in laboratory apparatus. He is one of the auhtors of "First Principles of Chemistry," published by Allyn & Bacon in 1907, and a laboratory manual to accompany the same in 1908.
He married, July 6, 1892, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, Carrie May Ellis, born July 31, 1868 in that town, daughter of Charles Rufus and Eliza (Miller) Ellis. The former was born Aug. 29, 1843, in Otsego county, New York, and served as a private in Company D, Fifty-seventh Regiment of State Volunteers from Oct. 16, 1861 to Dec. 31, 1863. He was enrolled as corporal of the company, Jan. 1, 1864, by re-enlistment, and served until discharged Dec. 20, 1865. He was subsequently a merchant and farmer and died at Yellow Springs, Ohio, April 29, 1880. He was the father of a daughter and a son, namely: Carrie May Ellis, and Charles Herbert Ellis, b. May 29, 1873.