. The street railway review . furnished rooms in the new Western Reservebuilding, corner Water and Superior streets. M. A. HAXNA, the president, is known as one of the leading andwealthy, citizens and has made his way fromboyhood to affluence during his residence in was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1837 and came tothe citv in 1S52. After graduating at the high school heentered his fathers wholesale grocery and flour estab-lishment and rapidly made his way to a place in the then became interested in oil refining, and later, the name of M. A. Hanna & Co. he succee
. The street railway review . furnished rooms in the new Western Reservebuilding, corner Water and Superior streets. M. A. HAXNA, the president, is known as one of the leading andwealthy, citizens and has made his way fromboyhood to affluence during his residence in was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1837 and came tothe citv in 1S52. After graduating at the high school heentered his fathers wholesale grocery and flour estab-lishment and rapidly made his way to a place in the then became interested in oil refining, and later, the name of M. A. Hanna & Co. he succeededthe firm of R. R. Rhodes & Co., engaged in mining and. PRESIDENT M. A. HAXNA. shipping iron and coal. These interests are still main-tained and to them may be added that of rolling millsand shipping interests at Ashtabula and Escanaba. He isalso a heavy stockholder in a large number of lake steam-ers and director in the Globe Iron Works, whose 3,000ton iron steamers plow the waters of all the great must not be omitted of his presidency of theUnion National Bank, of which he was the prime organ-izer and continuous president. He became interested in street railways in 1875 ^1has held the presidential office during these 17 is an ardent Republican and a warm, personal friendof Senator McKinley and John Sherman, having managedthe canvass for the latter for both senator and is also president of a lake transportation company. Personally he is a most genial man, a magnificentspeaker, and is acknowledged as one of those men towhom the city largely owes its wealth and commercialimportance. J. B. HANNA began life
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