- GERAMDO M. HANCHETT, a senior member of the firm of HANCHETT
& SHELDON,
- wholesale and retail dealers in hardware, iron, etc., is
located in business at Nos. 24 and 26 South Main street, Janesville,
Wis. This prominent mercantile house was founded by Mr. HANCHETT
in 1874, and six years later A. H. SHELDON was admitted into
the business as a partner. They have built up an extensive jobbing
and retail trade at Janesville, their annual business amounting
to from $75,000 to $80,000. They carry a full and complete line
of hardware, iron, wagon stock, carriage hardware, stoves, nails,
tinware, etc. In 1887 they established a branch house at Duluth,
Minn. where they do an important jobbing and retail hardware
business.
- The subject of this sketch was born in Oneida County, N.Y.,
on the 15th day of August, 1844, and
- is a son of J. Mark and Juliet (TITUS) HANCHETT. His father,
who was also born in Oneida County, was of French Huguenot ancestry,
while his mother was descended from an old Connecticut family
of English origin. When a lad of nine years, Mr. HANCHETT came
with his parents to Janesville, in 1853, and was educated in
the high school of this city, also taking a course in the Janesville
Business College. He entered upon his business career as a clerk
in the store of W. J. DOOLITTLE, a hardware merchant of Janesville,
and continued with that gentleman for three years, when he established
himself in the hardware business at Cresco, Iowa. For six years
he operated his store at that place, and for three years was
engaged as a traveling salesman for a jobbing house. In 1874
he sold out his stock in Iowa and opened his present store in
Janesville, in which he has been quite successful.
- Mr. HANCHETT was married in the town of Harmony, Rock County,
on the 4th day of
- September, 1866, Miss Anna SPAULDING becoming his wife. The
lady is a daughter of Joseph SPAULDING, Esq., and was born in
this county, where her parents were numbered among the early
settlers. By their marriage a family of four children have been
born. Della, the eldest is the wife of D. K. JEFFRIES, a prominent
lumber dealer of Janesville; Fred M. is a student of the State
University, while the younger children are Etta and Mary. Mrs.
HANCHETT is a member of the Congregational Church. Mr. HANCHETT,
in his political sentiments is a Republican and socially is a
Knight Templar Mason, belonging to Western Star Lodge No. 14,
A. F. and A.M.; Janesville Chapter No. 5, R.A.M., and to Janesville
Commandery No. 2, K. T. He is also a member of Oriental Lodge,
No. 22, Knights of Pythias. He is a stock-holder and director
in the Janesville Hay Tool Company, and was formerly its vice
president. Mr. HANCHETT has long been recognized as one of the
leading business men of Janesville, and has won prominence and
success by indefatigable industry and application to legitimate
business.
-
- Taken from "Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock
County Wis." (c)1889, p. 474-475.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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