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Show Rev. Hancock's Useful Life. Tho generations of pioneers who left the east to Kettle the great west aro steadily piumlng. There recently died In Minneapolis, Minn., Hov. Joseph W. Hancock, aged 92, who was the earliest . pioneer of Goodhue county In Minnesota, Minne-sota, and wns tho first wlitto man In k Bed Wing In 1849, going4 ns a Presbyterian Presby-terian missionary among tho Indians. He continued In that service until 1882. halng organized the first Presbyterian Pres-byterian church of Bed Wing, served as Its first postmaster, and as register of deeds and superintendent of schools of Goodhue county. |