Editing Hubert Howe Bancroft (section)

==Early life==
Hubert Howe Bancroft was born on May 5, 1832, in [[Granville, Ohio]], to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft. The Howe and Bancroft families originally hailed from the [[New England]] states of [[Vermont]] and [[Massachusetts]], respectively.<ref name=MWA>''[https://archive.org/details/menwomenofameric00newy/page/86 Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries].'' New York: L.R. Hamersly and Co., 1910; p. 87.</ref> Bancroft's parents were staunch [[abolitionism in the United States|abolitionists]] and the family home was a station on the [[Underground Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p535 |title=Bancroft House, The Council of Independent Colleges |access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref>

Bancroft attended the Doane Academy in Granville for a year, and he then became a clerk in his brother-in-law's bookstore in [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref>Ann Natalie Hansen, "Hubert Howe Bancroft, Historian of the West", ''The Historical Times: Newsletter of the Granville, Ohio, Historical Society'', vol. 9, no 4. (Fall 1997).</ref>
[[File:Bancroft House (80003135).JPG|left|thumb|Bancroft Birthplace, Granville, Ohio]]