JOSIAH CHANCE (1839 - 1885)
President Lincoln Bodyguard Established Camp Hancock

In the 1870s, Lieutenant Josiah Chance and his sister, Florence, were two of the more colorful people in the Bismarck area. Lieutenant Chance had been one of President Lincoln’s personal bodyguards and was later sent to Dakota Territory to establish Camp Hancock. He was one of the few in the area to cash in on the Louisiana Lottery while it was in operation in the 1880s. Florence Chance was very close to her older brother, and her free-spirited ways stood out in the new frontier city of Bismarck. Florence later married Stanley Huntley, editor of the Bismarck Tribune, and, after his death, became a noted newspaper writer and author.