HANCOCK  , a

city of Houghton county, Michigap, U.S.A., on Portage Lake, opposite Houghton . Pop . (1890) 1772; (1900) 4050, of whom 1409 were foreign-born; (1904) 6037; (1910) 8981 . Hancock is served by the Mineral Range, the Copper Range, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, and the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railways (the last two send their trains in over the Mineral Range tracks), and by steamboats through the Portage Lake Canal which connects with Lake Superior . Hancock is connected by a bridge and an electric line with the village of Houghton (pop. in 1910, 5113), the county-seat of Houghton county and the seat of the Michigan College of Mines (opened in 1886) . Hancock has three parks, and a marine and general hospital . The city is the seat of a Finnish Lutheran Seminary—there are many Finns in and near Hancock, and a Finnish newspaper is published here . Hancock is in the Michigan copper region—the Quincy, Franklin and Hancock mines are in or near the city—and the mining, working and shipping of copper are the leading industries; among the city's manufactures are mining machinery, lumber, bricks and beer . The municipality owns and operates the water-works . The electric-lighting plant, the gas plant and the street railway are owned by private corporations . Hancock was settled in 1859, was incorporated as a village in 1875, and was chartered as a city in 1903 .