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GEORGE W. HANNAN, one of Steubenville's progressive and enterprising business men in the iron industry, general manager of the Pope Tin Plate Company, of which he is a director, was born in Massachusetts, in 1874. When a babe of one year his parents moved to Wheeling, W. Va., where he was reared and educated. Mr. Hannan's first business experience was in the mills of the Aetna Iron Company, at Martin's Ferry, O., where he remained two years. Later he became paymaster for the La Belle Iron Works at the Wheeling plant and remained until 1898 at Steubenville and operated the Jefferson Iron Works for the La Belle Iron Works Company until 1896, when he returned to the Wheeling plant and remained until 1898 as superintendent of the tin plate department. From then until 1901 he was superintendent for the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company at Wheeling. He returned to Steubenville as general manager of the Pope Tin Plate Company, designing and building the plant, in which he is interested financially, as he is also in the La Belle Iron Works. In 1895 Mr. Hannan was married to Miss Katherine Bray, of Wheeling, who is a niece of Andrew Glass, who was one of the original Owners of the Jefferson Iron Works at Steubenville. Mr. and Mrs. Hannan have one daughter, Harriet. Mr. Hannan is identified with the order of Elks.  Return to Family Tales
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