Marcus Alonzo Hanna; his life and work . eir family of Leonard Hanna had not accompanied him toCleveland in the spring of 1852. They joined him in the fallof the same year, after the business had been well established,and moved into a substantial brick house on Prospect Street,between Granger and Cheshire streets. The fact that Mark considered himself engaged to be marriedwas not allowed to interfere with the more immediately necessarybusiness of going to school. His education was continuedduring some four years and a half. One of the public schoolswhich he attended was situated o
Marcus Alonzo Hanna; his life and work . eir family of Leonard Hanna had not accompanied him toCleveland in the spring of 1852. They joined him in the fallof the same year, after the business had been well established,and moved into a substantial brick house on Prospect Street,between Granger and Cheshire streets. The fact that Mark considered himself engaged to be marriedwas not allowed to interfere with the more immediately necessarybusiness of going to school. His education was continuedduring some four years and a half. One of the public schoolswhich he attended was situated on Browmell Street, then calledClinton Street. Later he studied at the Central High School,which stood on the site now occupied by the Citizens Savingsand Trust Co. John D. and William Rockefeller were amonghis schoolmates, the former being about Marks own his education was finished by an attendance of a fewmonths at the Western Reserve College. Nothing of any im-portance is remembered about his life during these years — 36. EARLY YEARS IN CLEVELAND 37 except the reason for the early termination of his career atcollege. An interesting account of this incident is supplied by himself. In a speech delivered on the seventy-fifth anni-versary of the founding of the college, June 13, 1901, he tellsthe story so well that his account deserves to be repeated infull. He said on that occasion, in the easy colloquial mannercharacteristic of his public speaking: I am neither a studentnor a scholar, and it is with diffidence I address this connection with the Western Reserve College reaches backas far as 1857. I had finished my education at the publicschools, and I had a choice of going to work or attempting acollege course. My mother persuaded me to try the Reserve College at Hudson was near at hand, andthere I went. I entered what was called the scientific class,in which a kind-hearted professor made things easy for were five member
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