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Professor P.S. Bancroft
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PROF. P. S. BANCROFT was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, where his parents and maternal grandparents long resided. Earl Bancroft, the father of the subject of this sketch, moved to Crawford County, Pennsylvania,
when the latter was eight years of age, settling on a farm near Meadville. The son was brought up on the farm and educated at Allegheny College, Meadville, where he graduated in the class of 1855. He taught Greek and Latin in Madison College, Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
for two years, and in 1861 he entered the 111th Pennsylvania Volunteers, as a Second Lieutenant, and subsequently became a member of the Third Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, serving in all nearly four years, during the last two of which he held the rank of Captain.
In 1866 Professor Bancroft married Bella Brinker, youngest daughter of Col. Jacob Brinker, and granddaughter of Abraham Brinker, one of the first settlers of Butler. They had two sons, and one daughter, viz.: Earl D., of Butler; Grove G., deceased; and Flora G., wife of
William H. Tilton, of Butler. Professor Bancroft came to Butler in 1877, and was for several years principal of old Witherspoon Institute, but finally abandoned teaching for newspaper work. He began writing for the Butler Eagle in March, 1888, and in October 1, 1889,
became associate editor of the Butler County Record, a position which he still holds. Professor Bancroft and family are members of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, of Butler, and in politics he is a supporter of the Republican party. |
