Biographical Sketch of C. H. R. Handcock, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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C. H. R. Handcock, senior member of the firm of Handcock & Pyle,
dealers in lumber and contractors and builders, of Union, Franklin
Co., Mo., was born in London, England, July 14, 1834, son of Fred-
erick and Harriet (Rains) Handcock, both natives of England.  The
father was a watchmaker by trade, and died in the year 1839.  The
mother is now living in London, England.  Our subject was reared 
and educated in England.  At the age of fourteen he began learning
the carpenter's trade, at which he served an apprenticeship of
seven years.  At the age of twenty-one he enlisted in the army
crops, and was attached to the miners' and sappers' corps, organ-
ized by Sir Joseph Paxton, for the Crimean War.  He went direct to
Balaklava, and thence to the seige of Sebastapol.  He served for
eighteen months, and then returned to England and worked in the
Scott-Russell ship yard, where the "Great Eastern" was built.  In
September, 1856, he immigrated to Canada, where he remained one
year, and then moved to Minnesota.  He remained here eighteen
months, took out his citizen's papers, and then removed to St. Louis
where he engaged in the carpenter's business.  In 1863 he returned
to England, and, at the expiration of eleven months returned to St.
Louis, and in 1876 removed to DeSoto, Jefferson Co., Mo., where he
engaged in farming for one year.  He then moved into the City of 
DeSoto, and began contracting, and remained there for eleven years,
during which time he erected the city school building, at a cost of
$17,000 and most of the business houses of that place. In September,
1887, he opened a lumber yard in Union, Mo., and also does a general
contracting business.  He owns several houses and lots in DeSoto, 
and a fine farm of 280 acres in Jefferson County.  In 1884 he re-
turned to England, on a visit to his aged mother, and remained two
months.  In 1859 Mr. Handcock married Miss Sarah I. Davis, a native
of Warrenton, Mo., and to them were born two children, one living.
This wife died about 1868, and in 1869 he married Miss Martha A.
Armstrong, of St. Louis, Mo., who bore him eight children, all are
living.

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