Reading Old Newspapers

At Chronicling America, old newspapers from Holt County, Missouri have been digitized .  Our direct ancestor, Samuel Hahn, left the county in the mid-1860s, but much can be learned about his brothers, Richard and Daniel Hahn, who remained in the county until they died.  Trying different search terms has produced many articles that help to piece together Daniel's very large family.  The articles also open a peek into the daily life of Daniel Hahn, one the county's first and respected citizens, a successful and wealthy farmer, who lived to be 83 years old.  You can read some of these articles at Daniel Hahn (1813-1897).