Hanna, Robert Marshall 1839 - 1911

HANNA, KNEFF

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 1/21/2005 at 02:57:55

Burlington Hawkeye
Sunday June 16, 1912

ROBERT MARSHALL HANNA WAS AN IOWA PIONEER, LEARNED HIS TRADE IN FAIRFIELD. Passed away at Peoria last year…Editor of the Peoria Evening Journal….was born in Braxton County, Va., in 1839, a descendant of one of the fine old families that made the history of Virginia. When he was six years old his father and mother, DAVID and CAROLINE HANNA, moved to Fairfield, Iowa, and again in 1849 to California, lured by the discovery of gold, returning again to Peoria in a few years. When fourteen years old he entered the office of the Fairfield Sentinel to learn the newspaper business…he was married to MISS SARAH KNEFF in 1856. During the war he and his wife, lived in Burlington, Ia., where he was on the staff of the Burlington Hawkeye…