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 732 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY he attended the law school at the State University and graduated in 1876, was admitted to the bar, and opened a law office at New Ulm the year following. Upon his graduation from the university he was elected superintendent of schools of Brown county. In 1881 he was appointed receiver in the U. S. land office at Tracy, a position he held until 1885. These duties, however, did not pre- vent him from continuing in his legal profession, in which his emi- nent talents soon made him distinguished. But not only did Lind become noted as one of the most able lawyers in his part of the state, but his great ability in public life and his excellent qualities as a man soon convinced the people of the state of Minnesota of his eminent fitness for representing their commonwealth in con- gress. Consequently, in 1886, he was elected to congress on the Republican ticket from the Second congressional district, re- elected in 1888 and again in 1890. In 1896 he was the candidate of the Democratic party and the People's party for governor, but was defeated. During the Spanish-American War he was appointed regimental quartermaster of the Twelfth Minnesota Infantry with the rank of first lieutenant. While encamped at Camp Thomas. Chickamauga Park, the Democrats and Silver Re- publicans nominated him for governor, and he was elected in 189s. lie is now engaged in the practice of his profession in Minneapolis. He was married in L879 to Alice Shepard. They have three children. David Hancock, or "Uncle Dave." as he is lovingly called, was born April 22. 1812, in Worcester county, .Mass. He went to Vermont with his parents, learned blacksmithing, which he car- ried on with his brother, and then went to work on a Connecticut steamboat, of which he afterwards beca captain. He came to Red Wing June 12. 1854, and in partnership with Thomas Lo- water ran a stage line. He took a contract for delivering mail once a week from this city to Austin and St. Nicholas, Minn., but being of an accommodating disposition, gave a semi-weekly service instead. As assistant of Sheriff Harry Hoffman, who first went easl and was then appointed postmaster, Mr. Hancock was practically the real sheriff, and to him belongs the honor of tak- ing the first prisoner from this city to Stillwater. Mr. Hancock then went to live in Goodhue township, where he enlisted in the Civil War, serving one year as drum major. From his discharge until 1877 he engaged in steamboating on the Mississippi and in the latter year practically retired. He was also the first cap- tain of the Nellie Sheldon, one of the early ferry experiments across the river at this point. David Hancock has twice been married, first to Adeline Stearns, and after her death to Olive Field. He is the father of six children. James M. Goodhue. Minnesota Territory was organized March