[p. 472] member of the well-known business firm of Joseph Hannon and Bro., slate an tin roofers, with office and quarters at No. 5 East Washington street, New Castle, was born at New Castle, Pa., September 17, 1865, and is a son of James and Ellen (Scanlon) Hannon.
The parents of Mr. Hannon were born in Ireland. James Hannon came to New Castle in 1851. He carried on agricultural pursuits near New Castle, where his death occurred December 23, 1904. He was a Democrat in his political views. Mrs. Hannon died April 6, 1896.
Joseph Hannon was quite small when his parents settled in Union Township, and his boyhood was spent there, assisting on the farm and attending the public sehools. When he was seventeen years old he began to learn the tinsmith and roofing trade, with William Becker, who was then a well-known business man of New Castle and a former sheriff of Lawrence County. Mr. Hannon remained with Mr. Becker for six years, after which he entered into a partnership with C. W. Dunlap, under the firm name of Dunlap & Hannon, and this business connection continued for five years. Then Mr. Hannon embarked in the tinsmith and roofing business on his own account, admitting his brother, Richard Hannon, to partnership in 1906, the latter having been in his employ for twenty years, and since then the firm name has been Joseph Hannon & Bro. Mr. Hannon has been a successful business man and enjoys the confidence of his fellow citizens. He is one of the city's influential Democrats and on the ticket of his party was nominated for county commissioner in 1908.
He is a member of several fraternal organizations: the Elks, the Maccabees, the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Mutual Benevolent Association. He is a man of public spirit and a friend of the cause of education, and for eight years served as a member of the School Board of Union Township and for four years he also served there as a Director of the Poor.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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