Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-02-20
Senator Hanna Dead.

Senator Marcus A. Hanna, Chairman
of the republican national committee
died at the Arlington hotel, Washington
on the evening of February 18th of ty
phoid fever. He had been i'll for NOR,
than two weeks and gradually failed afte
a long and gallant fight for life.
/ Marcus Alonzo Hanna was born il
New Lisbon, Columbiana county, O.
September "a, 1887. Fifteen years later
his parents removed to Cleveland, where
he lived all the rest Of his life. He wat
educated in the public schools, first oil
New Lisbon and then at Cleveland, and
finished at the Western Reserve college
at Hudson, o., which latter institution
granted him the degree of LID. In 1900.
After leaving college he entered the
Wholesale grocery house of Hanna, Gar
retson & Co., Cleveland, his father be-
ing the senior member Of the firm.
When his father died in 1882, Marcus
represented the interest in the firm un-
til 1867, when the business was closed
up and he became member of Rhodes
& Co., engaged in the coal and iron busi-
ness.
Ten years later the title of this firm
was changed to M. A. Hanna & Co.,
which still exists. Mr. Hanna was close
ly and actively identified with the lake
carrying interests, being interested in
the ownership of vessels on th e lake and
in the construction of such vessels. He
was also active in railway and banking
circles, being president of the Union
National bank of Cleveland, president of
the Cleveland City Railway company
and was in 1885 government director
of the Union Pacific railroad, being ap-
pointed by President Cleveland. He
was not reckoned a national figure in
politics prior to the Mckinley campaign
of 1885, although he had been delegate
from Ohio to the national conventions of
1884 and 1888. In 1896 he managed the
preliminary campaign that resulted in
the nomination of William Mckinley
for president, and then, as chairman of
the national committee directed the cam
paign that resulted in Mr. McKinley's
election.
In 1900 he was made national chair
man for the party again, and again man
aged the campaign most successfully.
One Of the features Of this campaign was
Mr.. Hanna's own swing around the wes-
tern circuit on tour of campaign speech
making. He surprised the knowing ones
of his party by the enthusiasm he en-
gendered, and much of the success ofthe
party in the doubtful western states has
been attributed to this expedition. In
March, 1897, he was named as senator
from Ohio by Governor Bushnell to sue
ceed John Sherman, who retired to en-
ter Mr.. McKinley's first cabinet. In
1898 he was elected to serve out the
short term, ending in 1899, and also for
the full term ending in March, 1905.
Last month he was again elected senator
to succeed himself, so that his term of
office now would not have expired until
March, 1911.
The funeral services took place in the
senate chamber on the 18th and was
marked by profusion Of flowers and
the presence of the president and
cabinet, together with the senators and
representatives and most of the public
men OF the nation. 1t is said that sci
dom has more distinguished body of
people been gathered in Washington to
do homer to the living or dead.