Born 1 June probably 1823 likely in Hanover, Germany died Jan 6 1887 Newburgh Ohio.  He moved to Cleveland perhaps before 1850.

According to my grandmother Elizabeth Adele Hanna Reid (his granddaughter) he left Germany because he didn't want to serve in the Army.  He and probably his wife's Uncle Jacob Koehl [(buried Axtel cemetery and moved to Harvard Grove) b 18 Apr 1793 Alsace Lorraine, a blacksmith who had lived in Prussia before moving to New York State and later moving to Cleveland],  started a Wagon Manufactory and Blacksmith shop on Frankfort near public Square.

In the 1860s this shop included 74 and 76 and 79 Frankfort. The 1867-8 Cleveland Directory lists Hanna and Company Carriage Builder at 76 Frankfort.  Later this was Hanna-Kneen with Phillip Kaneen. They made all kinds of wagons and carriages, even making at least one carriage for Rockefeller. About 1870, he retired to his farm in Newburgh.

His farm and eight room yellow brick house were located at the corner of E 93rd (earlier known as Woodland Hills) and Union (2506 Union), earlier (c.1861) this was listed as residence 4 miles out Old State Road, in 1983 this was the location of an Ameritrust.   In the very early 1900s they tore the house down and his son Louis Hanna had a butcher shop there where he also sold eggs.  In the 1900s most of the family lived on the North side of Union between E 93rd and E 116th. Many of their houses were still there in 1990.

Louis Hanna built the double house closest to E 93rd (9317 Union) and he and his brother William F Hanna Jr. had a nursery with three green houses on the land behind the houses there and a Florist shop on Public Square c. 1885-1919. (Louis Hanna William F Hanna, Jr and Charles F Hanna were all buried in Highland Park-unfortunately in the 1990s someone removed William F. Hanna, Jr.'s black granite headstone from lot 447)

With Elisabetha Koehl born c. Mar 1829 Prussia
Frederick William Hanna had:
Bertha
Gus
Marvin G.
William F
Louis
Charles F.
Otto
Edward C.

Jacob Koehl, Marvin, Edward, Elisabeth Koehl Hanna and Frederick William Hanna and Grandson William Frederick Hanna (son of Louis and Martha J. Alden Hanna) were all buried in the same corner plot on the main road in Harvard Grove Cemetery. Until recently, they had a nice dark grey granite obelisk with grey marble headstones. However, in about 1993 someone ran into the obelisk. We were visiting the grave the week after it happened and noticed the top of it lying on the ground. The staff at the cemetery said it was too big to put it back together with their crane and that it would take a special crane to fix it....

Russ Finley
FJRFin@cs.com