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Title: Marcus Alonzo Hanna; his life and work
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930
Subjects: Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 1837-1904
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ften or twelve. Perhaps a father who objected to flogging, andwho supported his son in a rebellion against the exercise of aschool-teachers authority outside of school hours, would havebeen loath to submit his son to Davy Andersons rule andrulers. When the Union-School System of graded public schoolswas adopted, Mark Hanna apparently went to public school.In the general re-grading and distribution of the children,Mark Hanna and Henry McCook were assigned to the highschool, and were made deskmates. The school was lodged inthe basement of the Presbyterian Church, and here Markcontinued his education until he left New Lisbon. As Irecall him, says Dr. McCook, in the roundabout or taillesscoat then worn by boys, he was a ruddy-cheeked j^outh, ratherslightly built, certainly not stout or stocky — a pleasant,wholesome fellow, clean of tongue and with more polish of man-ners than many of his playmates. Nevertheless, we were inseveral school scrapes together, in one of which the writer saved
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Mark and Howard Melville Hanna as Children BOYHOOD 23 his deskmate from a thrashing by resisting the teacher in whatwas by our schoolroom standards an unlawful mode of punish-ment. This diverted attention from my fellow-culprit, whoin the melee went scot-free. Dr. McCook adds: Severalteachers had charge of the high school during the pupilage ofthe Senator ^and his deskmate, but the one Avho wielded thegreatest and most wholesome influence upon our characterswas Reuben McMillan. To him the writer owes more than anyother instructor in school or college; and this affection and thisgratitude were shared during his school life, at least, by Mr.Hanna. Before leaving the subject of Mark Hannas schooling in NewLisbon, attention must be called to an unofficial source of in-struction and training which the lad shared with some of hisplaymates. On Jan. 12, 1850, there was instituted the Poly-delphian Society of New Lisbon, a debating club, whose con-stitution and behavior are so well described i

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