| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Hanna, Robert |
| Title: | Robert Hanna Papers |
| Dates: | 1811-1938 |
| Dates: | 1811-1870 |
| Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) |
| Abstract: | Robert Hanna (1789-1854) was the first white child born in Lynchburg, (West) Virginia. His family moved to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1801. He became a circuit-riding minister for the Methodist Church. His great nephew, Marcus A. Hanna, became a United States Senator. The collection consists of an autobiography, a daily journal of his activities as a minister, clippings, genealogical material, sermons, scattered correspondence, a license to perform marriages, and scattered notes on the John Kersey Wharry branch of the family (ca. 1938). |
| MS Number | MS 3838 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Robert Hanna (1789-1854) was Born in Lynchburgh, Virginia, on May 28, 1789, the son of Robert Hanna (born 1753 in Ireland) and Catherine Jones. Robert Hanna, Sr. co-founded and settled Lynchburgh, Campbell County, Virginia, and moved his family to Bull Creek, three miles north of Middleton, in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1801, and lived out his life in New Lisbon, Ohio. He also founded Clarkson, Ohio. Robert Hanna, Sr. died in 1834.
Robert Hanna (1789-1854) was trained as a surveyor and, failing that, became a joiner's apprentice in New Lisbon. He became a carpenter and cabinet maker. He was raised a Quaker, and converted to Methodism in 1811. Hanna became a circuit preacher, and his first minister's position was in Bottetourt, Virginia in 1812, followed by another position in Calvert, Maryland, in 1813. He married Elizabeth Liston in 1815. Robert Hanna was active in the anti-slavery movement and helped smuggle slaves into the North.
Due to increasing deafness, Hanna gave up preaching in 1816 and became an itinerant portrait and landscape painter, working mainly in Tennessee, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Ohio. In later life he settled in Wheeling, West Virginia, and died in Smyrna, Delaware, in 1854 while on a commission.
The Robert Hanna Papers, 1811-1870 and 1938, consist of an autobiography, a daily journal of his activities as a minister, clippings, genealogical material, sermons, scattered correspondence, a license to perform marriages, and scattered notes on the John Kersey Wharry branch of the family (ca. 1938). Those studying the history of religion and early settlement in the Western Reserve will find this collection useful, as will those studying the history of the anti-slavery movement in Ohio. Principal correspondents include Robert Hanna, Catherine Hanna, Benjamin Hanna, Leonard Hanna, and Ann Hanna Hole.
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Related MaterialThe researcher should also consult MS 2510 Hanna Family Papers.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 3838 Robert Hanna Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Elma Kinsey Wharry Fisher in 1980.
Robert Hanna Papers 1811-1870 1938 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Autobiography 1829 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Autobiographical sketch 1811 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Daily journal 1811-1816 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Photocopy of pages 1-10 of 1811 autobiographical sketch undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Genealogical data, Robert Hanna, Sr. family 1837 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Genealogical data, Wharry family 1938 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Obituaries 1854 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence 1812-1870 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Sermons 1846 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Miscellaneous material 1837 | |||||||||