Editing Septimus J. Hanna (section)

==Legal career (1872–1890)==
In 1872, the offer of a partnership brought Hanna to Chicago, where he practiced law until late 1879, when failing health<!-- from [[tuberculosis]], I have found no ref for this--> caused him to move to Colorado.<ref name="obit" /> Settling in the town of [[Leadville, Colorado|Leadville]], he worked as a lawyer and register in the U.S. land office.<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=bk0005s657s;NAAN=28722&chunk.id=div00007&brand=oac4&query=septimus&set.anchor=1 Hanna, Septimus J.] Online Archive of California. Retrieved July 8, 2013</ref> He was register of the United States Land Office in Leadville from 1882 to 1886, after which he practiced law from 1886 to 1890. While in Iowa and Colorado, Hanna took an active interest in politics, supporting the [[Republican Party (United States)#Founding and 19th Century|Republican Party]], then a young political party.

Hanna and his wife first heard of Christian Science in Leadville in 1885 when two of her friends in Council Bluffs said they were healed by it.<ref>Brief biography of Camilla Hanna, C.S.D. in ''Pioneers in Christian Science'', Longyear Museum & Historical Society (1993). Note: This book is spiral bound for the purpose of enabling additional pages to be added, hence there are no page numbers. The biographical sketches are in alphabetical order.</ref> His wife, then a semi-invalid, began to look into the new religion. In 1886, she received a copy of the Christian Science textbook, which she studied and saw her health restored. This led Hanna to begin his own investigation of the religion. His reading left him impressed with what he saw as its logic, but he was unable to grasp the book's meaning in its entirety.<ref name="obit" /> Although the drier Colorado climate had alleviated some of his health problems, he was not completely recovered. A woman living in New Hampshire helped him in Christian Science and he recovered, becoming so impressed with the experience, that he began a "systematic study" of the religion's textbook.<ref name="obit" />