OBIT: Abram E. HAHN, 1915, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Died in Altoona on Thursday Morning.

  Of a complication of diseases at the advanced age of 87 years, 4 
months and 15 days, Abram E. Hahn entered into that sleep that knows no 
earthly waking at his home, 2605 Union avenue, Altoona, Thursday 
morning at 7.50 o'clock.  Of the twenty-eight presidents of the United 
States, Mr. Hahn lived during the several administrations from John 
Quincy Adams to Woodrow Wilson included, or during the administration 
of the entire number of presidents excepting five.
  Abram E. Hahn was born in Carroll county, Maryland, on October 3, 
1827, and during half of his long life, he made his home in the 
vicinity of his birth.  He lived not far from Gettysburg, where 
southern chivalry locked arms with northern bravery in a three days 
struggle in the darkest period of the Civil war.  With his son, A. J. 
Hahn, he visited the field of carnage on the Sunday following the 
eventful battle, and that son has all the vivid recollections that a 
boy in his teens could have concerning ghastly scenes on the near Round 
Top and Devil's Den.
  On October 3, 1846, Mr. Hahn was joined in holy wedlock to Miss Mary 
Jane Myerly, in Carroll county, Maryland.  To this union were born four 
children, three of whom survive.  The mother of this family died in 
December of 1874, and Mr. Hahn was married two years later to Mrs. 
Annie McFarland.
  During the sixties Mr. Hahn moved his family to Philipsburg where he 
followed carpentering and painting until in recent years he made his 
home on Union avenue in Altoona.  When in Maryland he was a member of 
the Lutheran church and on moving to Philipsburg where at that time 
there was no church of his chosen denomination, he joined the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  In this faith he died; he was the last survivor of 
his family.
  Surviving his death are his wife and the following children: A. J. 
Hahn and C. C. Hahn, of Tyrone; Mrs. C. L. Dennie, of Williamsport; 
also one step-son, William McFarland.  Surviving also are five grand 
children and eight great grand children.
  The body was brought to Tyrone Friday evening to the home of A. J. 
Hahn, 1313 Pennsylvania avenue. Funeral services were conducted at this 
home on Saturday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, Rev. W. W. Hartman, pastor 
of the First Methodist Episcopal church officiating.  Interment in 
Grand View cemetery.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., February 25, 1915, page 5