Biography of Samuel D. Hanna, pages 788/789.  Memorial Record of 
Northeastern Indiana; The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1896. 

	Samuel D. Hanna, general manager of the Auburn Foundry & Machine 
Works, of Auburn, Indiana, is an enterprising and thorough-going business 
young man, and is a representative of one of the oldest and most 
distinguished families of northeastern Indiana.  His grandfather was Judge 
Samuel Hanna, one of the venerable pioneers of Fort Wayne and Allen county.  
Horace H. Hanna was one of the founders of the Bass & Hanna Foundry of that 
city. After a brief but active and useful life he died there, at the age of 
thirty-three years.  His wife, the mother of our subject, bore the maiden 
name of Elizabeth Rogers, and is the only daughter of George and Rebecca 
Rogers. She became the mother of five children, three sons and two 
daughters, namely: Alice, wife of W. C. Heckman, of Washington, District 
of Columbia; Hessie, deceased, wife Charles McCullough Bond, of Fort 
Wayne; Samuel D.; Horace W., now in the West; and Charles H. secretary of 
the Auburn Foundry & Machine Works.
	From this brief mention of his parentage and family history we turn 
for a glimpse at the life of our immediate subject. He was born at the old 
Horace Hanna homestead in Fort Wayne, August 19, 1864, and was educated in 
the schools of that city.    He was graduated at a German Lutheran school, 
and then entered high school, where he pursued his studies until within a 
month of the time of his graduation.  In 1882, at the age of eighteen, he 
secured a position with Combs & Company, iron manufacturers of Fort Wayne, 
and remained in their employ for five and a half years. During the two 
years and a half that followed this period he was in the employ of 
Alderman, Yarnelle & Company, and in 1889 he severed his connection with 
that firm and came to Auburn, where he has since maintained his residence.  
Here he purchased stock in the Auburn Foundry & Machine Works and at once 
became general manager of the establishment. While under his able 
supervision the business has increased to five time its volume of that of 
many years ago.  This firm manufactures the Acme road graders, Ideal 
variable sawmill feed, sawmill machinery, pumps, engines and boilers, also 
deals in general sawmill supplies and carries on a repair shop.
	Mr. Hanna was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Kemp, daughter of 
Edgar Kemp, of Fort Wayne. They have had three children, a son and 
daughter now living, and one child who died in infancy.  Mr. Hanna is a 
member in good standing of the Knights of Pythias fraternity and the 
Masonic order, having taken the Knight Templar degrees in the latter. A 
young man of high moral integrity and more than ordinary business ability, 
he has won an enviable place in the estimation of the people of Auburn.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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