From his birth in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Hoxworth and Benjamin Franklin Hancock, from the stories of his grandfather, “Old Neddie” Hoxworth, the Revolutionary War patriot, to the parade grounds of West Point Military Academy along the Hudson River, a boy was forged, tempered and delivered into a man who would encompass the best qualities of a soldier and citizen while not relinquishing his forthright, unaffected nature.

This man would rise through the ranks to craft a life story second to none, never blowing his own horn but, instead that of those who served with him. His story ended in February of 1886 with his death on Governor’s Island in New York Harbor with a nation and the world he had inhabited to attest to his personal valor and character. Over time, his significance lost its luster with no one to laud his name.  In 1994, his story arose again with the restoration of his mausoleum at Montgomery Cemetery in Norristown and, today, the W.S. Hancock Society is here to once again introduce the name of Winfield Scott Hancock back into the American lexicon.

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