BIO: John Andre HANNA, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 189.
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  HANNA, GEN. JOHN ANDRE, son of Rev. John Hanna and Mary McCrea, was 
born about 1761, at Flemington, N.J.  He received a good classical 
education under his father, who was a most excellent tutor.  He served 
in the war of the Revolution.  Toward its close came to Pennsylvania 
and studied law with Stephen Chambers, of Lancaster, whose acquaintance 
he made in the army, and was admitted to the bar of Lancaster county at 
November session, 1783.  He located at Harrisburg upon the formation of 
the county of Dauphin and was among the first lawyers admitted there.  
He took a deep interest in early municipal affairs, and there was 
little transpiring looking to the welfare and development of the new 
town in which Mr. Hanna did not take part.  His marriage with a 
daughter of John Harris, the founder, brought him into unusual 
prominence.  He represented the county in the Legislature, and in 1795 
elected to the United States Congress, a position he filled up to the 
time of his death by successive reelection.  During the Whiskey 
Insurrection he was a brigadier general of the Pennsylvania force in 
command of the Second brigade, Second division.  In 1800 Governor 
McKean commissioned him a major general of the Third division of the 
militia forces of the State.  He died at Harrisburg on the 18th of 
July, 1805, aged forty-four years, and is buried in the cemetery there.  
General Hanna married Mary Harris, daughter of John Harris and Mary 
Read, who died August 20, 1851, in the eighty-first year of her age.  
They had nine children:  Esther Harris, d.s.p.; Eleanor (first), 
d.s.p.; Sarah Eaton, married Richard T. Jacobs; Henrietta, died 
unmarried; Caroline Elizabeth, married Joseph Briggs; Frances Harris, 
married John Carson McAllister; Julian C., married John Fisher; Mary 
Read, married Hon. John Tod; and Eleanor (second), d.s.p.