Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....HANNAN, Frank 1838 - living in 1899
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  FRANK HANNAN, one of the most enterprising and influential business men of
  Forksville, Sullivan County, Pa., has efficiently served as postmaster of the
  borough since July 7, 1897. He is a son of Francis and Abigail (Ely) Hannan, and
  was born in Bath, Steuben County, N. Y., August 29, 1838.
  
    Francis Hannan, father of our subject, was born in 1798 and was forty-two
  years of age when he met with a sad accident, in 1839, being killed by a falling
  tree. But little is known concerning his life. His union with Abigail Ely
  resulted in the following issue: Lucretia; Harriet; Mary; Jane; Louisa; Helen;
  and Frank, the subject of this biographical record. Mrs. Hannan attained the
  advanced age of seventy-nine years.
  
    Frank Hannan was reared in Bradford County, Pa., and obtained his mental
  training in the Collegiate Institute at Towanda, after which he engaged as a
  teacher for four years, three years in the schools of Forksville. Upon the
  outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he enlisted in Company I, 6th Pa. Reserves, on
  April 22, just ten days after the declaration of war. He served gallantly for
  three years and was promoted from private to the rank of sergeant, which rank he
  held at the time of his discharge in 1864, at Harrisburg, Pa. In all he
  participated in seventeen important engagements, and established a good record
  as a true and brave soldier. At the close of the war he returned to Asylum,
  Bradford County, Pa., where he remained a year. He then located in Millview
  where he engaged in lumbering with much success for twenty years. He then
  engaged in the insurance business which he continued until he received his
  appointment as postmaster of the borough of Forksville. Since his occupancy of
  that office he has erected a fine postoffice on Bridge street, and the manner in
  which he has discharged his official duties has won for him the highest esteem
  and good will of the citizens throughout that section. Mr. Hannan owns
  considerable property, including a handsome residence on Main street and a farm
  of two hundred and forty acres which is partly timber land. Upon the latter he
  has made many improvements, built new barns, remodeled the other buildings, and
  erected a sawmill, which he conducted during the period he was engaged in
  lumbering.
  
    Mr. Hannan was united in marriage to Victoria Wood, daughter of George Wood of
  Bradford County, Pa., and they are the proud parents of two children, namely:
  Richard G., a conductor on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, who married Anna Mahaffey
  and has one child, Murrell; and Dora, who is a dressmaker by occupation.
  Politically Mr. Hannan is an ardent Republican. He served as auditor for
  fourteen years. Socially he is past grand master of the Odd Fellows Lodge; and
  past commander of the G. A. R. Post of Forksville.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
  
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