HANOVER, a town of Jefferson county, Ind., U.S.A., on the Ohio river, 5m. below Madison, the nearest railway station. The population was 390 in 193o. At the edge of the town, on a bluff 5ooft. above the river, is Hanover college (Presbyterian), opened in a log cabin in 1827 as an academy, and incorporated as a college in 1833. Its theological department was established as a separate institution and moved to New Albany in 184o, and thence in 1859 to Chicago, becoming (1886) the McCormick Theological seminary.