HANNA, JAMES — Born in Guernsey County, Ohio, June 13th, 1801, and on January 1st, 1821 married Miss Nancy Boden, who was born in 1807 at Lancaster county, Pa. They soon settled on a farm in Guernsey county, Ohio, and thence removed to another farm in Licking County, near Reynoldsburg, of the same state, where the family resided until coming to Minnesota.
In 1850 Mr Hanna went to California and returning home in the fall of 1852, in company with his son, James Cochrane Hanna, and his brother-in-law, George Maxfield [James and George married sisters, Nancy and Sarah Boden], he went to inspect the country at the mouth of the Blue Earth in Minnesota. At St Paul Mr Hanna was taken sick and his son and Mr Maxfield came to Mankato, and liking the country located claims in the vicinity in October 1852. Returning home Hanna and Maxfield removed in the spring with their families to Mankato arriving there May 16th. Mr Hanna immediately purchased the Minard Mills the frame of a warehouse, which he was erecting where the Young & Otto grocery now stands, and fitting it up for a residence, moved both families into it before the end of May. Late in the Fall of the same year, Mr Hanna moved his family to a new frame dwelling he had built on the site now occupied by the First National Bank. Until the opening of the Mankato House in 1855, Mr Hanna's home was the principal stopping place for strangers.
Mr and Mrs Hanna were conscientious religious people and members of the Presbyterian church, and they were the first to inaugurate public worship and public education in Mankato. A Sunday school was started early in June, 1853 in their house, and preaching services were held there whenever a minister visited the town. In July of the same year Mr Hanna opened the first day school in Mankato in a room of his home, with his daughter Sarah J, (now Mrs Marsh) as teacher. Mr Hanna located a claim in West Mankato, including Sibley Park and the low land between it and Front street, a part of which has been platted as Hanna's addition.
He died May 13th, 1855. and his wife in December, 1877. There were fourteen children born to them: Mrs Mary Ann Northrup (deceased), Ellen, John (deceased), Andrew (deceased), Mrs Sarah Jane Marsh, James Cochrane (deceased) , Mrs Lucinda Cummings (now Nichols), Melinda (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Milton, Mrs Nancy Griffiths, Mrs Mathilda Twitchell (deceased), Martha and William 0.
[Mankato - It's First Fifty Years. pub. 1902 p224]
In 1850 Mr Hanna went to California and returning home in the fall of 1852, in company with his son, James Cochrane Hanna, and his brother-in-law, George Maxfield [James and George married sisters, Nancy and Sarah Boden], he went to inspect the country at the mouth of the Blue Earth in Minnesota. At St Paul Mr Hanna was taken sick and his son and Mr Maxfield came to Mankato, and liking the country located claims in the vicinity in October 1852. Returning home Hanna and Maxfield removed in the spring with their families to Mankato arriving there May 16th. Mr Hanna immediately purchased the Minard Mills the frame of a warehouse, which he was erecting where the Young & Otto grocery now stands, and fitting it up for a residence, moved both families into it before the end of May. Late in the Fall of the same year, Mr Hanna moved his family to a new frame dwelling he had built on the site now occupied by the First National Bank. Until the opening of the Mankato House in 1855, Mr Hanna's home was the principal stopping place for strangers.
Mr and Mrs Hanna were conscientious religious people and members of the Presbyterian church, and they were the first to inaugurate public worship and public education in Mankato. A Sunday school was started early in June, 1853 in their house, and preaching services were held there whenever a minister visited the town. In July of the same year Mr Hanna opened the first day school in Mankato in a room of his home, with his daughter Sarah J, (now Mrs Marsh) as teacher. Mr Hanna located a claim in West Mankato, including Sibley Park and the low land between it and Front street, a part of which has been platted as Hanna's addition.
He died May 13th, 1855. and his wife in December, 1877. There were fourteen children born to them: Mrs Mary Ann Northrup (deceased), Ellen, John (deceased), Andrew (deceased), Mrs Sarah Jane Marsh, James Cochrane (deceased) , Mrs Lucinda Cummings (now Nichols), Melinda (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Milton, Mrs Nancy Griffiths, Mrs Mathilda Twitchell (deceased), Martha and William 0.
[Mankato - It's First Fifty Years. pub. 1902 p224]
HANNA, JAMES — Born in Guernsey County, Ohio, June 13th, 1801, and on January 1st, 1821 married Miss Nancy Boden, who was born in 1807 at Lancaster county, Pa. They soon settled on a farm in Guernsey county, Ohio, and thence removed to another farm in Licking County, near Reynoldsburg, of the same state, where the family resided until coming to Minnesota.
In 1850 Mr Hanna went to California and returning home in the fall of 1852, in company with his son, James Cochrane Hanna, and his brother-in-law, George Maxfield [James and George married sisters, Nancy and Sarah Boden], he went to inspect the country at the mouth of the Blue Earth in Minnesota. At St Paul Mr Hanna was taken sick and his son and Mr Maxfield came to Mankato, and liking the country located claims in the vicinity in October 1852. Returning home Hanna and Maxfield removed in the spring with their families to Mankato arriving there May 16th. Mr Hanna immediately purchased the Minard Mills the frame of a warehouse, which he was erecting where the Young & Otto grocery now stands, and fitting it up for a residence, moved both families into it before the end of May. Late in the Fall of the same year, Mr Hanna moved his family to a new frame dwelling he had built on the site now occupied by the First National Bank. Until the opening of the Mankato House in 1855, Mr Hanna's home was the principal stopping place for strangers.
Mr and Mrs Hanna were conscientious religious people and members of the Presbyterian church, and they were the first to inaugurate public worship and public education in Mankato. A Sunday school was started early in June, 1853 in their house, and preaching services were held there whenever a minister visited the town. In July of the same year Mr Hanna opened the first day school in Mankato in a room of his home, with his daughter Sarah J, (now Mrs Marsh) as teacher. Mr Hanna located a claim in West Mankato, including Sibley Park and the low land between it and Front street, a part of which has been platted as Hanna's addition.
He died May 13th, 1855. and his wife in December, 1877. There were fourteen children born to them: Mrs Mary Ann Northrup (deceased), Ellen, John (deceased), Andrew (deceased), Mrs Sarah Jane Marsh, James Cochrane (deceased) , Mrs Lucinda Cummings (now Nichols), Melinda (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Milton, Mrs Nancy Griffiths, Mrs Mathilda Twitchell (deceased), Martha and William 0.
[Mankato - It's First Fifty Years. pub. 1902 p224]
In 1850 Mr Hanna went to California and returning home in the fall of 1852, in company with his son, James Cochrane Hanna, and his brother-in-law, George Maxfield [James and George married sisters, Nancy and Sarah Boden], he went to inspect the country at the mouth of the Blue Earth in Minnesota. At St Paul Mr Hanna was taken sick and his son and Mr Maxfield came to Mankato, and liking the country located claims in the vicinity in October 1852. Returning home Hanna and Maxfield removed in the spring with their families to Mankato arriving there May 16th. Mr Hanna immediately purchased the Minard Mills the frame of a warehouse, which he was erecting where the Young & Otto grocery now stands, and fitting it up for a residence, moved both families into it before the end of May. Late in the Fall of the same year, Mr Hanna moved his family to a new frame dwelling he had built on the site now occupied by the First National Bank. Until the opening of the Mankato House in 1855, Mr Hanna's home was the principal stopping place for strangers.
Mr and Mrs Hanna were conscientious religious people and members of the Presbyterian church, and they were the first to inaugurate public worship and public education in Mankato. A Sunday school was started early in June, 1853 in their house, and preaching services were held there whenever a minister visited the town. In July of the same year Mr Hanna opened the first day school in Mankato in a room of his home, with his daughter Sarah J, (now Mrs Marsh) as teacher. Mr Hanna located a claim in West Mankato, including Sibley Park and the low land between it and Front street, a part of which has been platted as Hanna's addition.
He died May 13th, 1855. and his wife in December, 1877. There were fourteen children born to them: Mrs Mary Ann Northrup (deceased), Ellen, John (deceased), Andrew (deceased), Mrs Sarah Jane Marsh, James Cochrane (deceased) , Mrs Lucinda Cummings (now Nichols), Melinda (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Milton, Mrs Nancy Griffiths, Mrs Mathilda Twitchell (deceased), Martha and William 0.
[Mankato - It's First Fifty Years. pub. 1902 p224]
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