Marcus Alonzo Hanna; his life and work . akers. One of the laws of the association was that any per-son who was married outside the church or who was marriedby anybody but a Quaker minister should be disowned. Theapplication of this rule left Leonard Hanna and all his brothersexcept Kersey outside the pale. It does not appear, however,that they became active in any other denomination. Theirsituation made them tolerant, and the process of religiousemasculation which begins in toleration usually ends in indif-ference. Kersey Hanna stated that Leonard, in spite of certaindoctrinal disagreements w
Marcus Alonzo Hanna; his life and work . akers. One of the laws of the association was that any per-son who was married outside the church or who was marriedby anybody but a Quaker minister should be disowned. Theapplication of this rule left Leonard Hanna and all his brothersexcept Kersey outside the pale. It does not appear, however,that they became active in any other denomination. Theirsituation made them tolerant, and the process of religiousemasculation which begins in toleration usually ends in indif-ference. Kersey Hanna stated that Leonard, in spite of certaindoctrinal disagreements with the Hicksite Quakers, consideredhimself to be by conviction a member of that sect. Never-theless, after leaving New Lisbon, he regularly attended thePresbyterian Church, to which his wife belonged, without be-coming a Presbyterian himself. Thus in the matter of reli-gious training the earlier rigorous standards were very muchrelaxed; and Mark Hanna as a boy could, as we shall see,joke with impunity about his religious convictions. ^. BOYHOOD 19 Mark was assuredly a good-looking boy. Neither he nor hisbrothers were as tall as the previous generation of Hannas,and Mark himself, when he grew up, looked almost short, be-cause his broad and powerful frame seemed to need a fewmore inches of height. His uncle Kersey Hanna describeshim as short, strong and rugged, with a full round the other hand, most of his playmates recollect him as al-most slender. His complexion was fair, his hair bro^^^l and hisexpression frank, serious and communicative. But both as boyand man the most striking part of his personal appearance werehis big, alert, shrewd, searching bro^^^l eyes, which, like his taper-ing fingers, he inherited from his father and which he alone ofhis fathers sons did inherit. In this as in certain other respectsMark Hanna was another version of his father with betterhealth, more energy and more purpose. In describing the life led by the boys of Mark Hannas genera-tion
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