Son of William Albert Capener Hanks and Eunice Louise Murdock
Married Mary Elizabeth [Pedigo, Pettigo] Shive, Dec 1919, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah
Seizure Fatal To Blind Utah Author
N. C. (Corey) Hanks, 72, blind lecturer and author, died at home here Wednesday [26 Jan 1955] at 11:20 p.m. of a heart ailment suffered several hours earlier.
Born Nov. 3, 1882, Charleston, [Utah] Mr. Hanks was a son of William C. and [Eunice] Louise Murdock Hanks. After losing his hands and eyesight at 21 in a blasting cap accident, Mr. Hanks studied under the direction of Byron W. King for seven years. He memorized more than 40,000 words from classical literature.
Mr. Hanks attended King's School of Oratory at Pittsburgh, Pa., one year; Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., four years; Harvard University, two years and a summer session at Columbia University.
He earned the $10,000 required for his education by lecturing and writing.
He resided in Wasatch County his entire life. He gave 6,670 lectures in the United States, Canada, Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands, and made 75 transcontinental trips, mostly alone.
He was author of several books, including "Up From the Hills," "Men of the Rockies," and others.
In 1919 he married Mary Elizabeth [Pedigo] Shive. She died six years later [1926].
Survivors include six sisters and brothers: William C., Kirby, Ore.; Mrs. Hattie Marchant, Burley, Idaho; Joseph E., Manila, Wyo.; Mrs. Esther M. Fowlke, Orem; Reed H., McKinnon, Wyo.; Mrs. Eunice H. Cullimore, Provo.
Mrs. and Mrs. G. A. Hersh resided with him in his residence the past two and a half years.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. in Wasatch LDS Stake Tabernacle by Don Hicken, bishop of Heber Second Ward. Friends may call at Olpin Mortuary Saturday evening, Sunday prior to funeral services.
Burial will be in Heber Cemetery.
OBITUARY: Nymphas Coridon Hanks ; Utah; Salt Lake Tribune; 1955; Page D9
Sightless He Sees, Handless He Works, Is Prophet and Seer
N. C. Hanks Direct Relative of Abraham Lincoln on His Grandfather's Side, Arrives at Harvard for His Second Course in Social Ethics-Has Been Blind and Handless for Fifteen Years-A Remarkable Character with Exceptionally Clear Vision
Although Harvard University has trained many rare personalities, it is doubtful if a man of more penetrating discernment ever studied within its walls than N. C. Hanks, a native of Heber City, Utah, and third cousin of Abraham Lincoln--his grandfather and Lincoln being cousins. Mr. Hanks arrived in Cambridge about two weeks ago to take a course in social ethics department of Harvard University--his second year here. Mr. Hanks arrived in Cambridge about two weeks ago to take a course in social ethics department of Harvard University--his second year here. It looks, however, that Hanks will not be able to make it, as he showed the writer this week telegrams from Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, New York and Lancing, Mich., requesting his presence at these places at once for lectures. Mr. Hanks, since an accident 15 years ago at a silver mine he had an interest in out in Utah, has developed into one of most compelling lecturers in the field, and those who hear him once want him again. The Perkins Institution for the Blind at Watertown had him this week for the fourth time, and he nearly raised the roof. He is one of the most quaintly humorous lecturers since Mark Twain. Hanks has the middle and far West vernacular harnessed up to Southern dialect Eastern mannerisms, and pacific slope optimism, in a manner, which, mixed with rate patho and humor, keeps his audiences either roaring or crying when not on the fence--thinking. For two whole years, after Hanks was blown 40 feet into the air through a dynamite explosion, he was strapped to hospital beds, but the Lincolnian strain of blood in him, coupled to the sufferings and reflections of those awful months, and his subsequent years of struggling in finding out how to make a living in the world, have developed a personality, a force and an insight into the depths of human living given to but few men, consequently his lectures and his philosophic code, a bit of which is given below are most gripping. Hanks is an educator, prophet and seer, with a style all his own. Blind, handless, apparently helpless, he is a leader of men, as he is master of his fate, and few come from his talks without a firmer grip on themselves, as hundreds of thousands, who have listened to the blind orator, testify. He is wholly self-made, culturally. Up to the minute of the min explosion he was a prospector-intent on getting the previous metal-with no thought of education, and having had only a few years of it. After two years in the hospital he determined to try lecturing to make a living, and, although minus hands and eyes, managed, through odd jobs, to exist while he took a seven-years' course in oratory at a Utah school. After that he took a four-year course at Stanford University, California, and was here all last winter at Harvard, arriving again two weeks ago to resume his studies. Through all this period Hanks has supported himself and paid his way at school by his lecture. He is known and is in demand everywhere in the country and in Canada. He will be actually forced against his plans and wishes to break away from Harvard College, to meet insistent lecture calls from various school groups. He has been married for some years, his wife, a former nurse, being a Kentucky woman. Mr. Hanks is now 40. He is an athletic, straight-poised man, his face, with its high cheek-bones, bearing a strong resemblance to the smooth-faced Lincoln-to whom he is related. Mr. and Mrs. Hanks are doing a very fine work in the world, all based as Mr. Hanks affirms, "on leading of Providence." "I have but one object in life to do good."
Cambridge Tribune, Volume XLV, Number 52, 17 February 1923
Married Mary Elizabeth [Pedigo, Pettigo] Shive, Dec 1919, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah
Seizure Fatal To Blind Utah Author
N. C. (Corey) Hanks, 72, blind lecturer and author, died at home here Wednesday [26 Jan 1955] at 11:20 p.m. of a heart ailment suffered several hours earlier.
Born Nov. 3, 1882, Charleston, [Utah] Mr. Hanks was a son of William C. and [Eunice] Louise Murdock Hanks. After losing his hands and eyesight at 21 in a blasting cap accident, Mr. Hanks studied under the direction of Byron W. King for seven years. He memorized more than 40,000 words from classical literature.
Mr. Hanks attended King's School of Oratory at Pittsburgh, Pa., one year; Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., four years; Harvard University, two years and a summer session at Columbia University.
He earned the $10,000 required for his education by lecturing and writing.
He resided in Wasatch County his entire life. He gave 6,670 lectures in the United States, Canada, Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands, and made 75 transcontinental trips, mostly alone.
He was author of several books, including "Up From the Hills," "Men of the Rockies," and others.
In 1919 he married Mary Elizabeth [Pedigo] Shive. She died six years later [1926].
Survivors include six sisters and brothers: William C., Kirby, Ore.; Mrs. Hattie Marchant, Burley, Idaho; Joseph E., Manila, Wyo.; Mrs. Esther M. Fowlke, Orem; Reed H., McKinnon, Wyo.; Mrs. Eunice H. Cullimore, Provo.
Mrs. and Mrs. G. A. Hersh resided with him in his residence the past two and a half years.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. in Wasatch LDS Stake Tabernacle by Don Hicken, bishop of Heber Second Ward. Friends may call at Olpin Mortuary Saturday evening, Sunday prior to funeral services.
Burial will be in Heber Cemetery.
OBITUARY: Nymphas Coridon Hanks ; Utah; Salt Lake Tribune; 1955; Page D9
Sightless He Sees, Handless He Works, Is Prophet and Seer
N. C. Hanks Direct Relative of Abraham Lincoln on His Grandfather's Side, Arrives at Harvard for His Second Course in Social Ethics-Has Been Blind and Handless for Fifteen Years-A Remarkable Character with Exceptionally Clear Vision
Although Harvard University has trained many rare personalities, it is doubtful if a man of more penetrating discernment ever studied within its walls than N. C. Hanks, a native of Heber City, Utah, and third cousin of Abraham Lincoln--his grandfather and Lincoln being cousins. Mr. Hanks arrived in Cambridge about two weeks ago to take a course in social ethics department of Harvard University--his second year here. Mr. Hanks arrived in Cambridge about two weeks ago to take a course in social ethics department of Harvard University--his second year here. It looks, however, that Hanks will not be able to make it, as he showed the writer this week telegrams from Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, New York and Lancing, Mich., requesting his presence at these places at once for lectures. Mr. Hanks, since an accident 15 years ago at a silver mine he had an interest in out in Utah, has developed into one of most compelling lecturers in the field, and those who hear him once want him again. The Perkins Institution for the Blind at Watertown had him this week for the fourth time, and he nearly raised the roof. He is one of the most quaintly humorous lecturers since Mark Twain. Hanks has the middle and far West vernacular harnessed up to Southern dialect Eastern mannerisms, and pacific slope optimism, in a manner, which, mixed with rate patho and humor, keeps his audiences either roaring or crying when not on the fence--thinking. For two whole years, after Hanks was blown 40 feet into the air through a dynamite explosion, he was strapped to hospital beds, but the Lincolnian strain of blood in him, coupled to the sufferings and reflections of those awful months, and his subsequent years of struggling in finding out how to make a living in the world, have developed a personality, a force and an insight into the depths of human living given to but few men, consequently his lectures and his philosophic code, a bit of which is given below are most gripping. Hanks is an educator, prophet and seer, with a style all his own. Blind, handless, apparently helpless, he is a leader of men, as he is master of his fate, and few come from his talks without a firmer grip on themselves, as hundreds of thousands, who have listened to the blind orator, testify. He is wholly self-made, culturally. Up to the minute of the min explosion he was a prospector-intent on getting the previous metal-with no thought of education, and having had only a few years of it. After two years in the hospital he determined to try lecturing to make a living, and, although minus hands and eyes, managed, through odd jobs, to exist while he took a seven-years' course in oratory at a Utah school. After that he took a four-year course at Stanford University, California, and was here all last winter at Harvard, arriving again two weeks ago to resume his studies. Through all this period Hanks has supported himself and paid his way at school by his lecture. He is known and is in demand everywhere in the country and in Canada. He will be actually forced against his plans and wishes to break away from Harvard College, to meet insistent lecture calls from various school groups. He has been married for some years, his wife, a former nurse, being a Kentucky woman. Mr. Hanks is now 40. He is an athletic, straight-poised man, his face, with its high cheek-bones, bearing a strong resemblance to the smooth-faced Lincoln-to whom he is related. Mr. and Mrs. Hanks are doing a very fine work in the world, all based as Mr. Hanks affirms, "on leading of Providence." "I have but one object in life to do good."
Cambridge Tribune, Volume XLV, Number 52, 17 February 1923
Son of William Albert Capener Hanks and Eunice Louise Murdock
Married Mary Elizabeth [Pedigo, Pettigo] Shive, Dec 1919, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah
Seizure Fatal To Blind Utah Author
N. C. (Corey) Hanks, 72, blind lecturer and author, died at home here Wednesday [26 Jan 1955] at 11:20 p.m. of a heart ailment suffered several hours earlier.
Born Nov. 3, 1882, Charleston, [Utah] Mr. Hanks was a son of William C. and [Eunice] Louise Murdock Hanks. After losing his hands and eyesight at 21 in a blasting cap accident, Mr. Hanks studied under the direction of Byron W. King for seven years. He memorized more than 40,000 words from classical literature.
Mr. Hanks attended King's School of Oratory at Pittsburgh, Pa., one year; Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., four years; Harvard University, two years and a summer session at Columbia University.
He earned the $10,000 required for his education by lecturing and writing.
He resided in Wasatch County his entire life. He gave 6,670 lectures in the United States, Canada, Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands, and made 75 transcontinental trips, mostly alone.
He was author of several books, including "Up From the Hills," "Men of the Rockies," and others.
In 1919 he married Mary Elizabeth [Pedigo] Shive. She died six years later [1926].
Survivors include six sisters and brothers: William C., Kirby, Ore.; Mrs. Hattie Marchant, Burley, Idaho; Joseph E., Manila, Wyo.; Mrs. Esther M. Fowlke, Orem; Reed H., McKinnon, Wyo.; Mrs. Eunice H. Cullimore, Provo.
Mrs. and Mrs. G. A. Hersh resided with him in his residence the past two and a half years.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. in Wasatch LDS Stake Tabernacle by Don Hicken, bishop of Heber Second Ward. Friends may call at Olpin Mortuary Saturday evening, Sunday prior to funeral services.
Burial will be in Heber Cemetery.
OBITUARY: Nymphas Coridon Hanks ; Utah; Salt Lake Tribune; 1955; Page D9
Sightless He Sees, Handless He Works, Is Prophet and Seer
N. C. Hanks Direct Relative of Abraham Lincoln on His Grandfather's Side, Arrives at Harvard for His Second Course in Social Ethics-Has Been Blind and Handless for Fifteen Years-A Remarkable Character with Exceptionally Clear Vision
Although Harvard University has trained many rare personalities, it is doubtful if a man of more penetrating discernment ever studied within its walls than N. C. Hanks, a native of Heber City, Utah, and third cousin of Abraham Lincoln--his grandfather and Lincoln being cousins. Mr. Hanks arrived in Cambridge about two weeks ago to take a course in social ethics department of Harvard University--his second year here. Mr. Hanks arrived in Cambridge about two weeks ago to take a course in social ethics department of Harvard University--his second year here. It looks, however, that Hanks will not be able to make it, as he showed the writer this week telegrams from Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, New York and Lancing, Mich., requesting his presence at these places at once for lectures. Mr. Hanks, since an accident 15 years ago at a silver mine he had an interest in out in Utah, has developed into one of most compelling lecturers in the field, and those who hear him once want him again. The Perkins Institution for the Blind at Watertown had him this week for the fourth time, and he nearly raised the roof. He is one of the most quaintly humorous lecturers since Mark Twain. Hanks has the middle and far West vernacular harnessed up to Southern dialect Eastern mannerisms, and pacific slope optimism, in a manner, which, mixed with rate patho and humor, keeps his audiences either roaring or crying when not on the fence--thinking. For two whole years, after Hanks was blown 40 feet into the air through a dynamite explosion, he was strapped to hospital beds, but the Lincolnian strain of blood in him, coupled to the sufferings and reflections of those awful months, and his subsequent years of struggling in finding out how to make a living in the world, have developed a personality, a force and an insight into the depths of human living given to but few men, consequently his lectures and his philosophic code, a bit of which is given below are most gripping. Hanks is an educator, prophet and seer, with a style all his own. Blind, handless, apparently helpless, he is a leader of men, as he is master of his fate, and few come from his talks without a firmer grip on themselves, as hundreds of thousands, who have listened to the blind orator, testify. He is wholly self-made, culturally. Up to the minute of the min explosion he was a prospector-intent on getting the previous metal-with no thought of education, and having had only a few years of it. After two years in the hospital he determined to try lecturing to make a living, and, although minus hands and eyes, managed, through odd jobs, to exist while he took a seven-years' course in oratory at a Utah school. After that he took a four-year course at Stanford University, California, and was here all last winter at Harvard, arriving again two weeks ago to resume his studies. Through all this period Hanks has supported himself and paid his way at school by his lecture. He is known and is in demand everywhere in the country and in Canada. He will be actually forced against his plans and wishes to break away from Harvard College, to meet insistent lecture calls from various school groups. He has been married for some years, his wife, a former nurse, being a Kentucky woman. Mr. Hanks is now 40. He is an athletic, straight-poised man, his face, with its high cheek-bones, bearing a strong resemblance to the smooth-faced Lincoln-to whom he is related. Mr. and Mrs. Hanks are doing a very fine work in the world, all based as Mr. Hanks affirms, "on leading of Providence." "I have but one object in life to do good."
Cambridge Tribune, Volume XLV, Number 52, 17 February 1923
Married Mary Elizabeth [Pedigo, Pettigo] Shive, Dec 1919, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah
Seizure Fatal To Blind Utah Author
N. C. (Corey) Hanks, 72, blind lecturer and author, died at home here Wednesday [26 Jan 1955] at 11:20 p.m. of a heart ailment suffered several hours earlier.
Born Nov. 3, 1882, Charleston, [Utah] Mr. Hanks was a son of William C. and [Eunice] Louise Murdock Hanks. After losing his hands and eyesight at 21 in a blasting cap accident, Mr. Hanks studied under the direction of Byron W. King for seven years. He memorized more than 40,000 words from classical literature.
Mr. Hanks attended King's School of Oratory at Pittsburgh, Pa., one year; Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., four years; Harvard University, two years and a summer session at Columbia University.
He earned the $10,000 required for his education by lecturing and writing.
He resided in Wasatch County his entire life. He gave 6,670 lectures in the United States, Canada, Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands, and made 75 transcontinental trips, mostly alone.
He was author of several books, including "Up From the Hills," "Men of the Rockies," and others.
In 1919 he married Mary Elizabeth [Pedigo] Shive. She died six years later [1926].
Survivors include six sisters and brothers: William C., Kirby, Ore.; Mrs. Hattie Marchant, Burley, Idaho; Joseph E., Manila, Wyo.; Mrs. Esther M. Fowlke, Orem; Reed H., McKinnon, Wyo.; Mrs. Eunice H. Cullimore, Provo.
Mrs. and Mrs. G. A. Hersh resided with him in his residence the past two and a half years.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. in Wasatch LDS Stake Tabernacle by Don Hicken, bishop of Heber Second Ward. Friends may call at Olpin Mortuary Saturday evening, Sunday prior to funeral services.
Burial will be in Heber Cemetery.
OBITUARY: Nymphas Coridon Hanks ; Utah; Salt Lake Tribune; 1955; Page D9
Sightless He Sees, Handless He Works, Is Prophet and Seer
N. C. Hanks Direct Relative of Abraham Lincoln on His Grandfather's Side, Arrives at Harvard for His Second Course in Social Ethics-Has Been Blind and Handless for Fifteen Years-A Remarkable Character with Exceptionally Clear Vision
Although Harvard University has trained many rare personalities, it is doubtful if a man of more penetrating discernment ever studied within its walls than N. C. Hanks, a native of Heber City, Utah, and third cousin of Abraham Lincoln--his grandfather and Lincoln being cousins. Mr. Hanks arrived in Cambridge about two weeks ago to take a course in social ethics department of Harvard University--his second year here. Mr. Hanks arrived in Cambridge about two weeks ago to take a course in social ethics department of Harvard University--his second year here. It looks, however, that Hanks will not be able to make it, as he showed the writer this week telegrams from Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, New York and Lancing, Mich., requesting his presence at these places at once for lectures. Mr. Hanks, since an accident 15 years ago at a silver mine he had an interest in out in Utah, has developed into one of most compelling lecturers in the field, and those who hear him once want him again. The Perkins Institution for the Blind at Watertown had him this week for the fourth time, and he nearly raised the roof. He is one of the most quaintly humorous lecturers since Mark Twain. Hanks has the middle and far West vernacular harnessed up to Southern dialect Eastern mannerisms, and pacific slope optimism, in a manner, which, mixed with rate patho and humor, keeps his audiences either roaring or crying when not on the fence--thinking. For two whole years, after Hanks was blown 40 feet into the air through a dynamite explosion, he was strapped to hospital beds, but the Lincolnian strain of blood in him, coupled to the sufferings and reflections of those awful months, and his subsequent years of struggling in finding out how to make a living in the world, have developed a personality, a force and an insight into the depths of human living given to but few men, consequently his lectures and his philosophic code, a bit of which is given below are most gripping. Hanks is an educator, prophet and seer, with a style all his own. Blind, handless, apparently helpless, he is a leader of men, as he is master of his fate, and few come from his talks without a firmer grip on themselves, as hundreds of thousands, who have listened to the blind orator, testify. He is wholly self-made, culturally. Up to the minute of the min explosion he was a prospector-intent on getting the previous metal-with no thought of education, and having had only a few years of it. After two years in the hospital he determined to try lecturing to make a living, and, although minus hands and eyes, managed, through odd jobs, to exist while he took a seven-years' course in oratory at a Utah school. After that he took a four-year course at Stanford University, California, and was here all last winter at Harvard, arriving again two weeks ago to resume his studies. Through all this period Hanks has supported himself and paid his way at school by his lecture. He is known and is in demand everywhere in the country and in Canada. He will be actually forced against his plans and wishes to break away from Harvard College, to meet insistent lecture calls from various school groups. He has been married for some years, his wife, a former nurse, being a Kentucky woman. Mr. Hanks is now 40. He is an athletic, straight-poised man, his face, with its high cheek-bones, bearing a strong resemblance to the smooth-faced Lincoln-to whom he is related. Mr. and Mrs. Hanks are doing a very fine work in the world, all based as Mr. Hanks affirms, "on leading of Providence." "I have but one object in life to do good."
Cambridge Tribune, Volume XLV, Number 52, 17 February 1923
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