Hannah Morrison

Notes:

October 31, 1810 - Miami Monthly Meeting, Warren County, Ohio, pg. 66, Hannah Harlan (Harlen), formerly Morrison, granted certificate to Center Monthly Meeting, Clinton County, Ohio.

December 1, 1810 - Center Monthly Meeting, Clinton County, Ohio, pg. 497, Hannah Harlan (formerly Morrison) received on certificate from Miami Monthly Meeting, Warren County, Ohio, dated October 31, 1810.

April 6, 1811 - Center Monthly Meeting, Clinton County, Ohio, pg. 497, Hannah Harlan (Harlin) formerly Morrison, condemned, married out of unity.

Hannah married Jonathan Harlan on 1 Sep 1808 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Jonathan (son of Enoch Harlan and Edith Carter) was born on 7 Sep 1777 in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States; died on 26 Apr 1850 in Clinton County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Apr 1850 in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• History / Bio: 1950; Biographical Directory of the American Congress (Washington D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1950)., p1268

Notes:

HARLAN, Andrew Jackson, representative, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, March 29, l815; son of Jonathan and Hannah (Morrison), and grandson of Enoch and Edith (Carter) Harlan. He taught school at Evansville, Ind., 1836-38, when he removed to Marion, Ind., and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was clerk of the house of representatives of the state, 1842-43; represented Grant county in the state legislature, 1846, 1847 and 1848; was a Cass and butler elector in 1848, and a representative in the 31st and 33d congresses, 1849-51 and 1853-55. In congress he opposed the Missouri compromise and was censured by his party when he joined the Republicans. In 1861 he settled in Dakota Territory and was a member, and speaker of the house of delegates, 1862-63. He removed to Savannah, Mo., in February, 1863; was a member of the state legislature, 1864-68, and speaker, 1866-68. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1864, 1868, and 1876, and a candidate for lieutenant-governor of Missouri in 1870. He removed to Wakeeney, Kansas, in 1885; was postmaster, 1889-94, and returned to Savannah, Mo., in 1894. [Source: "The 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans", Vol.5, p.87. Reproduced by Ancestry Incorporated, Orem, Utah as Ancestry Reference Library, 1998 edition, a collection of genealogical reference works reproduced on CD]

History / Bio:

HARLAN, Andrew Jackson (cousin of Aaron Harlan), a Representative from Indiana; born near Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, March 29, 1815; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Richmond, Ind.; moved to Marion, Ind., in 1839; clerk of the State house of representatives in 1842 and a member 1846-1848; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Case and Butler in 1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); elected to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); in a Democratic congressional convention at Marion, Ind., in 1854 he was publicly read out of the Democratic Party for voting against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; declined the nomination from the People's Party in 1854 for the Thirty-fourth Congress; afterward allied himself with the Republican Party; moved to Dakota Territory in 1861; member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1861 and served as speaker; driven from the Territory by the Indians in September 1862 and settled in Savannah, Mo., where he resumed the practice of law; member of the State house of representatives 1864-1868, serving as speaker the last two years; moved to Wakeeney, Kans., in 1885 and practiced law; appointed by President Harrison as postmaster of Wakeeney and served from 1890 to 1894; removed to Savannah, Andrew County, Mo., in 1894; retired from practice of law; died in Savannah, Mo., May 19, 1907; interment in Savannah Cemetery. [Source: "Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949; Biographies", p.1268. Reproduced by Ancestry Incorporated, Orem, Utah as Ancestry Reference Library, 1998 edition, a collection of genealogical reference works reproduced on CD]