Marcus Alonzo Hanna; his life and work . short, the county was a smaller copy of the whole state andafforded the best of opportunities for a combined agriculturaland industrial development. New Lisbon was located in the southern part of the countyin the township of Centre. Its site consists of a stretch of levelor bottom land running east and west on the middle fork of theLittle Beaver Creek. To the north is a long, high hill, oncecrowned with a deep forest, up the side of which the villagegradually spread. West and south of the village there stretchesa formidable group of steep hills,
Marcus Alonzo Hanna; his life and work . short, the county was a smaller copy of the whole state andafforded the best of opportunities for a combined agriculturaland industrial development. New Lisbon was located in the southern part of the countyin the township of Centre. Its site consists of a stretch of levelor bottom land running east and west on the middle fork of theLittle Beaver Creek. To the north is a long, high hill, oncecrowned with a deep forest, up the side of which the villagegradually spread. West and south of the village there stretchesa formidable group of steep hills, the summits of which affordmany picturesque views of a broken landscape. The hill tothe south is particularly precipitous, and from the abundanceof evergreens on its sides, used to be known as Pine Hill. Itsproximity to the village, its rocks and its Avoods naturallymade it the favorite playground of the village boys. When Benjamin Hanna settled in New Lisbon in 1814 heleased a house in the centre of the village, which he used both as a. O a Q^ a y. BENJAMIN HANNA, HIS FvyVIILY AND HIS FORTUNE 9 store and as a residence. He did not in the beginning d(>pendfor his subsistence exclusively upon the shop. He also owneda farm on the hill to the north of the town, but in all probabilitythe shop soon came to occupy all his time. A storekeeper in avillage in the interior of Ohio in the year 1815 had his difficul-ties. Philadelphia was the most convenient point from NewLisbon for the purchase of stock — all of which had to be hauledthe length of the state of Pennsylvania over barbarous roadsby means of six- and eight-horse teams. The transportationof every hundred pounds of freight in this laborious fashioncost the merchant between $5 and SIO — the average ratebeing about $; and it was probably about as difficult fora man to finance his business as it was for him to procure hisstock. During the early years there was so little currency inthe country that trade was usually a ma
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