Biography - Addison Newton Bancroft
ADDISON NEWTON BANCROFT. He is a grocer and is the son of William and Sallie (Briggs) Bancroft of Worcester County, MA, where he was born on June 4, 1820. He spent his childhood on a farm. At the age of 16 he learned the trade of brick mason, which he followed for twenty years. In 1838, he went to Steuben County NY, where he remained until 1842, and then went to Iowa, living there until 1849. He then came to Galesburg. He married Catharine Blair on March 15, 1849. They had seven children, only three of whom are living. He has been a member of the Congregational Church for more than forty years, and has been an Elder of the First Church for fifteen years. He has been in the grocery business since 1858. He is a Republican in politics. Mr. B.'s oldest son, Edward A., a graduate of Knox College in the class of 1878 won the prize for oratory in the Inter-State Collegiate contest at St. Louis in June, 1878.
Contributed by Joan Achille, extracted from the 1878 History of Knox County, Illinois, published by Charles C. Chapman
