Biographical Sketch of Curtis Hoopes HANNUM (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 593-4. "CURTIS H. HANNUM received his education in the public schools of West Goshen, the West Chester academy when J. Hunter Worrall and Eugene Paulin were principals, and the law department of Yale university, from which he graduated June 26, 1873, and was on the same day admitted in the Superior court at New Haven to practice before the courts of law and chancery for the State of Connecticut. The following fall he entered the office of the late Judge Futhey and read law until the fall of 1874, and on Sept- ember 16 of that year was admitted to the bar of Delaware county, and the Supreme court of Pennsylvania. In the month of April, 1884, he quit the practice of the law to escape the confinement of an office, and in 1885 became a stockholder and director in the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of West Chester, organized in the early part of that year; is identified with other organizations of the borough, and is a member of Lodge No. 322, Free and Accepted Masons. A republican is politics, he takes pride in the industries and material welfare of our country, en- couraged and sustained by protection. "John Hannum, with his wife Margery, were settled in Concord township, then in Chester, but now in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, as early as 1682. John died in the latter part of the year 1730, and Margery in 1742. Their children were: James, who died in 1717; Robert, died February 26, 1759; George; John, married first, Mary Gibbons, second, Jane Neal, and died in Concord, March 25, 1773; Mary, married Thomas Smith; Elizabeth, married Thomas Broom; Margery, married Anthony Baldwin; Ann, married John Way; and Sarah, married Jacob Way. "John Hannum, Jr., was married August 8, 1741, to his second wife, Jane Neal, by whom he had five children: Margery, married Joseph Gibbons, Jr.; John, married Alice Park, and was the Col. John Hannum so famous in the local history of the revolution, and of Chester county; Mary, married Richard Cheyney; William, born February 1, 1748, married September 29, 1772, to Ruth Evans, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Evans, and died August 24, 1816; and James, married three times, died September 28, 1809. "William and Ruth Hannum had eleven children: Elizabeth, born August 8, 1773, married Samuel Grubb, and died July 2, 1860; John, born November 15, 1777, died June 15, 1777; William, born April 5, 1776, died January 13, 1852, married first Elizabeth Dutton, and second Lydia T. Swymelar; Samuel, born October 6, 1777, died April 14, 1845, married Susannah Pennell; John, born June 28, 1779, died November 22, 1848; Jane, born May 20, 1781, died May 1, 1864; Joseph, born November 8, 1782, died September 15, 1859, married Ann Fairlamb; Evan P., born July 30, 1784, died July 16, 1862, married Elizabeth Y. Gibbons; Philip E., born June 13, 1786, died November 15, 1790; Aaron, born May 13, 1788, died March 30, 1868, married first, Sarah Mercer, and second, Eliza Newlin; Norris, born March 11, 1790, died May 16, 1847, married Sarah H. Young. "Samuel Hannum and Susannah Pennell were married in 1798, she being the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Pennell, and at the time of her marriage the widow of William Cloud. They had eight children: Mary Ann, born February 25, 1799, died April 4, 1882, married Isaac M. Trimble; Joseph Pennell, born March 29, 1801, died September 6, 1860, married Esther P. Dutton; Edwin, born September 17, 1803, died April 10, 1874, married Maria Miller; Robert Evans, born December 10, 1805, married Georgianna Maria Bartram; Eliza, born December 17, 1808, died March 7, 1879; Ruth, born January 5, 1810, died July 26, 1885, married John D. Pierce; Susannah, born September 7, 1812, died July 29, 1844; Samuel, born December 12, 1814, died Sept- ember 8, 1892, married Lavina R. Hoopes, daughter of Curtis Hoopes and Sarah (Roberts) Hoopes, September 27, 1848. "Samuel and Lavina R. Hannum had two children born to them: Curtis Hoopes Hannum, born June 16, 1850, who married Mary Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Jackson and Lydia Ann Hughes, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1879; and Arabella, born July 28, 1860, died September 23, 1860. "Curtis Hoopes Hannum and Mary his wife, have two children: Caroline H., born August 4, 1880; Robert Ellis, born June 19, 1886. "In 1686 John Hannum purchased of Jeremiah Collett a farm of about two hundred acres in the township of Concord, and on or near this property were born all his descendants in the line to and including Curtis Hoopes Hannum, whose father, Samuel Hannum, having purchased a large farm in West Goshen township in 1853, moved there in the spring of that year; here for several years he lived, serving the people as school director, and being often sent by his republican neighbors to represent them in their party convention. In the spring of 1873 he moved with his family to West Ches- ter, where showing a deep interest in the welfare and progress of the town, he was first elected in February 1875, a member of council, and re- turned for seven consecutive terms, enjoying the confidence and respect of the community until the day of his death."