Editing Septimus J. Hanna (section)

==Family background==
Hanna's grandfather, Andrew Hanna, a [[Presbyterian]] from [[Scotland]], emigrated to the United States after the [[American Revolutionary War]] and bought land in Penns Valley in [[Pennsylvania]]. He served in the [[War of 1812]] and was in a battle that was part of the [[Battle of Lake Erie]]. He married a daughter of James Cook, a [[Federalist]] once described as "a tall, dignified gentleman ... a man of large means."<ref name="obit">[http://www.endtime.org/library/remin/hanna_bio.html Obituary and biographical sketch of Judge Septimus J. Hanna, C.S.D.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144534/http://www.endtime.org/library/remin/hanna_bio.html |date=2011-07-18 }} republished from the ''Pasadena Star News'', Pasadena, California (July 25, 1921). Retrieved July 6, 2013</ref> Hanna's father, Samuel Cook Hanna, a farmer, was born in 1808 in [[Centre County, Pennsylvania]], and spent his boyhood there. His father was an active member of the Methodist church and served as superintendent of the Sunday school. A history of the [[Spring Mills, Pennsylvania|Spring Mills]] Sunday School noted about him, "His words were few and always spoken with gentleness, but his life had a power whose influence was deep and abiding."<ref name="obit" />

His mother, Susanna Miles, was descended from a [[Baptist]] family who came from Radnor, Wales, with [[William Penn]] in "Ye Good Shippe Welcome" to become among the earliest settlers of [[Philadelphia]] and was related to [[Samuel Miles]], a militia general in the Revolutionary War, one of Philadelphia's early mayors and a judge of the High Court of Errors and Appeals. His brother, Richard, a captain in the Revolutionary War, was Hanna' s grandfather.<ref name="obit" />