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JOHN W. HANNAN
A member of the legal fraternity of
Stockton who had been a resident of this city practically all his life was the
late John W. Hannan, city attorney of Stockton almost up to the time of his
death. Mr. Hannan was a native of
Nevada, and was born there in Esmeralda County on November 19, 1879. His parents were John C. and Ethel (Roscot) Hannan, the former born
in Tuolumne County, California, while Mrs. Hannan, who has passed away, was a
native of Montreal, Canada, but moved to Minnesota.
In 1885 Mr. Hannan accompanied his
parents to Stockton and here he was educated in the public schools, St. Mary’s
College, and also had a course in the Stockton Business College. In 1907 Mr. Hannan joined the Stockton Police
Department, where for some time he was desk sergeant and later a
patrolman. During these years his
ambitions led him to take up the law and he spent four years in the study of
law under Charles De Legh, one of Stockton’s
well-known attorneys. As a reward for
his years of diligent study he was admitted to the bar in 1915, and on October
4 of that year he was admitted to practice in the U. S. Circuit Court. In the following year, 1916, Mr. Hannan was
appointed prosecuting attorney for the city of Stockton, a post he occupied
with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituency until he
resigned, January, 1922, to devote all his time to private practice, but he was
not permitted to long continue in his ambition for he was stricken suddenly by
death, March 10, 1922.
Mrs. Hannan before her marriage was
Miss Anna Laura McGinnis, a native daughter of California, born in Santa Clara
County, and one child was born to them, a son, Merlin F. C. Hannan. Mr. Hannan was always a Democrat in his
political views and fraternally was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the
Knights of the Maccabees.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
407. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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