The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18

/ from typhoid fever. At his bedside
were the members of his family, ex-
cept his wife, who, Frustrated with
grief, was compelled to retire by order
Of her physician.
Comparatively few of the politi-
clans, Senators, Representatives and
friends of Senator Hanna who crowd
ed the Railways about the suite and
Secretary Doyer's room were on the
second floor of the house when Mr.
Dover announced the end at GAO p.
N. Senator Kettredge, Congressman
Dick and CAPITA n j. G. Donnelson
were in Mr.. DoYer's Office. They re-
ceived the long expected information
quietly, being informed by several
reporters, to whom Mr.. Dover signal
ed the news by the wave of his hand
and the words: "It's all over at 20
minutes of seven"
Marcus AlonZo Hanna was born in
New Lisbon, Columbiana county, o.,
September gath, 1887. DR.. Leonard
Hanna, father of Marcus, was a ply
sician, and one of the prominent cit
liens of New Lisbon. Young Hanna
spent his boyhood days in that place.
In 1862 DR.. Hanna moved with his
family to Cleveland, Ohio, and there
founded a wholesale grocery firm of
Hanna, Garrettson & Co. Marcus at
tended the common schools in Cleve-
land and the Western Reserve College
at Hudson, Ohio. After graduating
there, at the age of 90, in 1857, he be-
gan his business career, taking clerk
ship in his fathers grocery firm. 1t
was a strange coincidence that at this
time the Hanna firm was having ex-
tensive dealings with the firm of
Joseph H Watson & Co., of Massillon,
o., in whose employ was Thomas c.
Platt, now United States Senator
from New York. Mr.. Platt was book
keeper for the Watson firm, and
young Hanna and Platt wrote many
business letters to each other for their
firms, but were both unknown to each
other.
The Hanna family traces its origin
back to the thirteenth century, when
Patrich Hannay, II resident of the
southwest coast of Scotland, built a
castle since known in history as Gas
tie Sorby. The family came into
prominence about the time of the
War of the Roses, and members OF
the Hannay family welded com
manding influence in the affairs of
England. The Hannays occupied
Castle Sorby until the close of the
seventeenth century. When land was
offered in Ireland free to all Scotch
men who would come over and settle
upon it the Hannays were in the front
rank, and one branch of the family
became Scotch Irish. Ii was this
branch of the family that afterwards
came to this country.
In the fall of 1854 Thomas Hanna,
the great, great grandfather of Mar
Gus A. Hanna, came to America and
arrived in Philadelphia. He settled
in Southern Pennsylvania and began
the work of telling the forests. He
lived only year after his arrival.
leaving two sons. Robert and Thomas,
the former the great grandfather of
Marcus. According to the customs of
the day these two boys were bound
out until of age, and Robert became
a member of family belonging to the
Society of Friends. Robert married
and moved from Pennsylvania to
Lynchburg, Va, where he resided
during the revolutionary war. AS he
was Quaker he took no part in the
hostilities, but this did not prevent
him from dispensing charity to the
soldiers of the Continental Army.
One day the old Quaker went into the
field where there was skirmish, and
finding four wounded men, brought
them TO his house and nursed them
until they were strong enough to
rejoin their regiments.
Benjamin Hanna, the grandfather
of Marcus, was born in Lynchburg,
and removed in 1902 to Columbiana
county, o. Here he cleared a farm
of so acres and built house. In 1903
he married Rachel Rickson, and CON
tinued farming until his health failed.
Seeing the great need of store in the
neighborhood, together with some
neighbors, combined their capital
and established a country store at
Salem, where he remained for two
years, and then moved to New Lis.
bon, where he opened store of his
own. Leonard Hanna, the father of
Marcus, was born in Columbiana
county in 1906 He studied and prac-
ticed medicine for a number of years
until his health failed, and then he
moved to Cleveland, where, as stated,