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MARCUS ALONZO HANNA
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as his greatest achievement. To his influence must be accredited in no slight degree the broader ideas which govern the contentions on both sides of this contest, and especially does his life-work stand for humane and just treatment of employes. He realized better than many of his contemporaries that in the complex affairs of the modern industrial world are problems quite as worthy of intellectual power as are the more classic problems of purely professional life.

Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, conferred on him the degree of LL.D. shortly after his election to the senate.

On September 27, 1864, Senator Hanna was married to C. Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Daniel P. Rhodes, of Cleveland, Ohio, who survives him. Three children were living in 1905.