Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Hannis, John 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

John Hannis, a retired farmer, resident at Coleta, is engaged in the business 
of an insurance agent and stock dealer. He was born July 26, 1827, in Luzerne 
Co., Pa. John Hannis, senior, his father, was born in Pennsylvania, and was of 
German extraction. He married Sarah A. Horton, a native of New Jersey and of 
Yankee parentage. Their marriage took place in Wilksbarre, Pa., at the house 
of Gen. Ross, whose name is well known as being connected with the war of 
1812. They became the parents of 12 children. The father died in January, 
1845. Mr. Hannis is the youngest child of his parents, and he was 18 years old 
when his father died. After that event he had his own battle to fight with the 
world, and set out with the equipments of a sound constitution, an abundance 
of the variety of pluck that kept him supplied with hopeful energy, and a cash 
capital of one shilling. He obtained a position as engineer in the service of 
the Lehigh Navigation Company, and was in the employ of the same corporation 
12 years. He wisely married when he found himself with reasonable prospects of 
employment. The ceremony which constituted him the husband of Elizabeth Steel 
took place May 30, 1846, in Luzerne Co., Pa. Her father, Adam Steel, was born 
at Mt. Bethel, Pa., and was of German descent. He was a farmer, and married 
Mary Ross, a native of the place last named and born of Irish parents. The 
former died Jan. 17, 1849, in Luzerne Co., Pa. The mother went afterwards to 
Henry Co., Iowa, where she died May 29, 1857. Mrs. Hannis was born April 13, 
1825, and she is the youngest of nine children, six girls and three boys. Mr. 
and Mrs. Hannis went in 1856 to Henry Co., Iowa, where the former was occupied 
four years as an engineer. In 1860 they came to Whiteside County and spent ten 
years in farming, taking farms on shares until 1870, when Mr. Hannis purchased 
80 acres of land in Carroll County, this State. He owned the property until 
1880, when he sold it and purchased 80 acres on section 17, Genesee Township, 
which is in valuable farming condition. In 1882 he retired to the village of 
Coleta, where he owns a desirable location with a residence. In political 
connection he is Republican. He and his wife are members of the Christian 
Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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