HANCOCK, a city of Houghton county, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula, on Portage lake, opposite Houghton. It is on Federal highway 41, and is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Chicago and North Western, the Copper Range and the Mineral Range railways, and by steamers from the Great Lakes through the Portage lake ship canal. The population was 7,527 in 192o, of whom 2,119 were foreign-born white; in 193o it was 5,795. It is the seat of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Theological seminary, and of the publication house of the denomi nation. Copper mining and smelting and the manufacture of dairy products are the dominant industries, and the city is growing in popularity as a summer resort and a headquarters for tourists in "Hiawatha Land." The Quincy, Franklin, Hancock, New Baltic and Arcadian mines are in or near the city. Hancock was settled in 1859, incorporated as a village in 1875, and chartered as a city in 1903.