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satisfactory examination in open court, for the twenty-second judicial district of the State of Michigan, he was duly admitted to practice in the circuit and supreme courts of that State.     He then returned to his native State and on April 12, 1887, was admitted to the practice of his chosen profession in Wyoming county. Later, on May 16, 1887, he was admitted to the Luzerne county bar, and opened an office in Ashley. In 1888, March 12, on motion of W. Horace Rose, Mr. Stephens was admitted to the Cambria county bar.     He is another of the numerous class who have used the profession of teaching as a steppingstone to a higher and broader education. Judging by the success of the average man thus fortified by experience and labor, it is very evident that Mr. Stephens will forge his way to profitable usefulness as a lawyer. He is by nature eminently endowed with the requisite qualifications for the successful practice of law, and being inclined to develop them will undoubtedly succeed.     Politically he is a republican, and on the first Monday of May, 1896, assumed the duties of City Solicitor for the city of Johnstown, having been elected to that office by the council of the city. He has been solicitor of the borough of Morrellville since its incorporation. He is an active and energetic member of the State Central Committee, and takes an untiring interest in all matters pertaining to the party and its success. HON. JOHN HANNAN, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is one of the solid business men of that enterprising city. He is a son of Martin and Ellen (O'Rourke) Hannan, and was born in New York city December 18, 1836. His father, Martin Hannan, was

born in County Longford, Ireland, in 1809, and came to America in 1830. He settled in the city of New York, and there married the mother of our subject. In April, 1840, be came to Johnstown, where he died in February, 1860. He was a contractor and builder of brick and stone-work, and helped to construct the famous dam at the South Fork reservoir, being employed at that time on work for the State along the line of the old Pennsylvania canal. Some of the masonry built by the State at that time still exists, and for strength and smoothness of finish it is a model for workmen of the present day.     The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Ellen O'Rourke. She was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1817, and came to New York with her father's family in 1832.     Martin and Ellen Hannan were the parents of two sons, James and John, and of three daughters, Margaret, Mary and Jane. James died in New York city, and our subject is now the only surviving member of the family.     John Hannan was educated at St. Francis College, at Loretto, Pennsylvania. After leaving school he learned the trade of moulder in the foundry of S. H. Smith & Co. This firm then operated a plant consisting of a foundry, car-shop and machine-shop on the site of the present Gautier Mill. He worked at his trade until 1866. He then went into business on Franklin street, conducting a grocery and furniture store under one roof in adjoining rooms. He continued in business until 1878, when he started a foundry on Centre street, and operated it with great success until the entire plant was swept away by the great flood of May 31, 1889     After the flood, in which he lost not only his property, but the lives of two of his children, Mary Ellen and Eugene, Mr. Hannan

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