When John Benjamin Hanna was born in February 1829, in Indiana, United States, his father, George Ross Hanna, was 25 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Polly Bridges, was 21. He married Sarah Fisher on 16 March 1851, in Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Fall Creek, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1870 and Nansene, Wasco, Oregon, United States in 1900. He died on 25 December 1904, in Dufur, Wasco, Oregon, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Dufur, Wasco, Oregon, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
The Massive Internal Improvements Act of 1836 loaned Indiana $10,000,000 to create infrastructure such as canals, railroads, and roads across the state. The act was signed by Whig Governor Noah Noble and passed by the Indiana General Assembly. However, the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1837 thwarted these plans as costs ballooned. Construction on the infrastructure was not completed and the state debt rapidly increased.
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
Irish (Down and Antrim) and Scottish: from Gaelic Ó hAnnaigh ‘descendant of Annach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, or from Gaelic Ó hÉanna ‘descendant of Éanna’, also unexplained but well attested. See also Hannan . It has been suggested that the name may also derive from Sheanaigh, a genitive case form of the Gaelic personal name Seanach, but this is untenable. This was one of very few ‘Ó’ surnames to be used in Scotland, a phenomenon which was confined to the Galloway and Carrick region.
English: habitational name from Hannah (Lincolnshire), possibly derived from the Old English personal name Hana or Old English hana ‘cock’ + ēg ‘island’.
English: sometimes in East Anglia a variant of Henney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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