John Hannon: Preacher, Essayist, Wit, Humorist, Christian; Being the Recollections, Sermons, Sketches, Sayings of Forty-Seven Years by John Hannon

John Hannon: Preacher, Essayist, Wit, Humorist, Christian; Being the Recollections, Sermons, Sketches, Sayings of Forty-Seven Years by John Hannon

John Hannon

1845-1921

John Hannon was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his education from McNutt School in Montgomery before attending the University of Alabama and Randolph Macon College. Hannon served in the Confederate Army from 1863 to 1865. After the war, he became a bookkeeper in a banking house for two years before joining the Virginia Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church. He then became the pastor of churches in Culpeper Station, Va., Baltimore, New Orleans, Richmond, and Lynchburg before transferring to the Pacific Conference. Hannon was pastor for four years in San Francisco, four years in San Jose, three years in Ukiah, and two years in Alameda. In 1900, he returned to Virginia, where he served until his death in 1921.

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1924

John Hannon: Preacher, Essayist, Wit, Humorist, Christian; Being the Recollections, Sermons, Sketches, Sayings of Forty-Seven Years. Richmond, VA; Whittet & Shepperson, 1924.

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Hannon, John, “John Hannon: Preacher, Essayist, Wit, Humorist, Christian; Being the Recollections, Sermons, Sketches, Sayings of Forty-Seven Years by John Hannon,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed November 8, 2026, https://www.alabamaauthors.org/items/show/24742.