HANCOCK, Mary Young 1863-1941

HANCOCK, YOUNG, NOTMAN, BURKE, HUTCHINSON, AMAN, BURGESSER

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 8/1/2002 at 23:20:22

The Clinton Herald Wednesday August 6, 1941 Mrs. Mary Young Hancock, daughter of the late W.J. and Esther Elderkin Young, Clinton pioneers, and widow of the late Charles T. Hancock of Dubuque, died in Mercy hospital, Clinton at 7:30 o'clock last night, following a brief illness. Mrs. Hancock, who had been residing in the Lafayette hotel, entered the hospital Monday afternoon. Private funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Hancock's son, C.Y. Hancock, Breezy Point, with the Rev. Thomas Horton, rector of St. John's Episcopal church, officiating. Committal will be in the Young family mausoleum in Springdale cemetery. Born in Clinton, Mrs. Hancock was educated in the Clinton public schools and in Miss Grant's School for Girls in Chicago. Following her marriage to Charles T. Hancock, she made her home in Dubuque until after the death of Mr. Hancock. The latter was a son of a pioneer Dubuque wholesale grocer, who established the family business in Dubuque in the middle fifties, and Charles T. Hancock continued to operate that enterprise until his own death. Two children, Courtland Y. Hancock, now of Clinton where he is president of The Clinton Herald Co. publisher of the Herald and identified with other Clinton business interests, and Florence, now Mrs. Arthur Notman of Staten Island, N.Y., were born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Hancock in Dubuque and were educated there. After the death of Mr. Hancock, Mrs. Hancock resided for a period in Pasadena, Calif., but returned to Clinton in 1925 and had made her home here and in Chicago since that year. She was vice president of W.J. Young & Co., founded by her father, an early day Clinton lumberman, and of the Clinton & Illinois Bridge Co. and was interested in other Clinton business institutions. Of her immediate family, Mrs. Hancock leaves her son and her daughter; three grandchildren, Arthur Notman, Jr., and John H. Notman of Staten Island, and Mary Elizabeth Hancock of Clinton; and three nieces, Mrs. J.C. Burke of Clinton, Mrs. A.H. Hutchinson of Chicago and Mrs. C.L. Aman of Havana, Cuba. Mrs. Notman arrived in Clinton early this morning from her Staten Island home. Preceding Mrs. Hancock in death were her husband, her parents, and her brothers and sisters, the late W.J. Young, Jr., C.H. Young, E.A. Young, Mrs. Esther Young Burgesser and Miss Jane Young.