. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. the revolution of 93, by oursubjects grandfather, Joseph Jeannot, or Joseph Schanno, the father of our sub-ject, was a man of wealth and influence, andhe died at the old home in Alsace in 1866, atthe age of ninety-five; his wife, Hergel Reine,died in 1872, aged eighty-six. They had fourchildren: Joseph, Anna, Reine and Emile, the eld-est
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. the revolution of 93, by oursubjects grandfather, Joseph Jeannot, or Joseph Schanno, the father of our sub-ject, was a man of wealth and influence, andhe died at the old home in Alsace in 1866, atthe age of ninety-five; his wife, Hergel Reine,died in 1872, aged eighty-six. They had fourchildren: Joseph, Anna, Reine and Emile, the eld-est son being named Joseph in accordance with a rulewhich has been followed in the family for sevengenerations. Our subject, who was the only member of thefamily to come to America, was engaged in businessin his native land for many years, owning a flourmill and several tracts of vineyards, and as may bejudged was a man of means and He wasprominent in civic affairs, serving as mayor ofTurckheim, and was also president of the Game-keepers Association in Alsace. However, he lost hisproperty in 1870, during the trouble between Franceand Germany, and after the conquest, in order tospare his son from German military service, he de-. EMILE SCHANNO COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 577 termined to come to America, in the hope also of re-trieving his lost fortune, emigrating to the UnitedStates m [876. He settled in Dingman township, Pike county, upon the present homestead of hischildren, where he established a summer hotel, known as the Hotel Schanno. lie was too in-dependent to take aid from his friends, though liehail many both in France and America, and his ownregret was that he was not able to do better by hischildren. Mr. Schanno died at his home in Ding-man Max 21, [883, and his estimable wife, CarolineKroell, to whom he was married in Alsace on Janu-ary 23, [857, survived him but two years, passingawa\ April [9, 1SS5. at the age of fifty-six. Shewas also a native of F
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