THE SOMERSET HERALD, SOMERSET, PA
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1846, p. 2
MARRIED.
On the 5th inst., By Elder Samuel Huston, Mr. Michael A. Sanner, Merchant, to Miss Susan Patton, both of Somerset Borough.
THE SOMERSET HERALD, SOMERSET, PA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1888, p. 3
Michael A. Sanner Dead
To record the death of any person is always unpleasant, and often painful, to the surviving relative and friends. M. A. Sanner died at his home in Somerset on Sunday morning last in the 78th year of his age, having been born on the 21st of April, 1810 in Lower Turkeyfoot township, this county. Wth the ecxception of three years spent as a clerk in the Land Office at Harrisburg during the administration of Governor Bitner, he resided in Somerset county, and for the last fifty years in the town of Somerset. He first engaged in the mercantile business with Cyrus Benford and continued in that business for many years accumulating a large fortune, and at one time was regarded as the wealthiest man in the county. Mr. Sanner was also engaged in the banking business for many years and was eminently successful up until the time of the fire of 1872 by which he lost heavily, and the great panic of 1873, when through his generosity and favors to pretender friends he was stripped of the earnings of a laborious life. His failure in the early part of 1877 was caused by his inability to collect the large loans made to friends—could they have been collected, his indebtedness would have been cancelled and a large competency left. The fact that he died a poor man, is sufficient evidence that he was an honest one.
Mr. Sanner was a man of strong likes and dislikes, his friends drawn to him with hooks of steel, while his enemies were always acquainted with his position.
In 1846 he was married to Susan Patton, to whom he was always a most generous and devoted husband and she with her five grown children survive him. His departure is deplored by is many friends and will be to his immediate family an irreparable loss.
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1846, p. 2
MARRIED.
On the 5th inst., By Elder Samuel Huston, Mr. Michael A. Sanner, Merchant, to Miss Susan Patton, both of Somerset Borough.
THE SOMERSET HERALD, SOMERSET, PA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1888, p. 3
Michael A. Sanner Dead
To record the death of any person is always unpleasant, and often painful, to the surviving relative and friends. M. A. Sanner died at his home in Somerset on Sunday morning last in the 78th year of his age, having been born on the 21st of April, 1810 in Lower Turkeyfoot township, this county. Wth the ecxception of three years spent as a clerk in the Land Office at Harrisburg during the administration of Governor Bitner, he resided in Somerset county, and for the last fifty years in the town of Somerset. He first engaged in the mercantile business with Cyrus Benford and continued in that business for many years accumulating a large fortune, and at one time was regarded as the wealthiest man in the county. Mr. Sanner was also engaged in the banking business for many years and was eminently successful up until the time of the fire of 1872 by which he lost heavily, and the great panic of 1873, when through his generosity and favors to pretender friends he was stripped of the earnings of a laborious life. His failure in the early part of 1877 was caused by his inability to collect the large loans made to friends—could they have been collected, his indebtedness would have been cancelled and a large competency left. The fact that he died a poor man, is sufficient evidence that he was an honest one.
Mr. Sanner was a man of strong likes and dislikes, his friends drawn to him with hooks of steel, while his enemies were always acquainted with his position.
In 1846 he was married to Susan Patton, to whom he was always a most generous and devoted husband and she with her five grown children survive him. His departure is deplored by is many friends and will be to his immediate family an irreparable loss.
THE SOMERSET HERALD, SOMERSET, PA
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1846, p. 2
MARRIED.
On the 5th inst., By Elder Samuel Huston, Mr. Michael A. Sanner, Merchant, to Miss Susan Patton, both of Somerset Borough.
THE SOMERSET HERALD, SOMERSET, PA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1888, p. 3
Michael A. Sanner Dead
To record the death of any person is always unpleasant, and often painful, to the surviving relative and friends. M. A. Sanner died at his home in Somerset on Sunday morning last in the 78th year of his age, having been born on the 21st of April, 1810 in Lower Turkeyfoot township, this county. Wth the ecxception of three years spent as a clerk in the Land Office at Harrisburg during the administration of Governor Bitner, he resided in Somerset county, and for the last fifty years in the town of Somerset. He first engaged in the mercantile business with Cyrus Benford and continued in that business for many years accumulating a large fortune, and at one time was regarded as the wealthiest man in the county. Mr. Sanner was also engaged in the banking business for many years and was eminently successful up until the time of the fire of 1872 by which he lost heavily, and the great panic of 1873, when through his generosity and favors to pretender friends he was stripped of the earnings of a laborious life. His failure in the early part of 1877 was caused by his inability to collect the large loans made to friends—could they have been collected, his indebtedness would have been cancelled and a large competency left. The fact that he died a poor man, is sufficient evidence that he was an honest one.
Mr. Sanner was a man of strong likes and dislikes, his friends drawn to him with hooks of steel, while his enemies were always acquainted with his position.
In 1846 he was married to Susan Patton, to whom he was always a most generous and devoted husband and she with her five grown children survive him. His departure is deplored by is many friends and will be to his immediate family an irreparable loss.
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1846, p. 2
MARRIED.
On the 5th inst., By Elder Samuel Huston, Mr. Michael A. Sanner, Merchant, to Miss Susan Patton, both of Somerset Borough.
THE SOMERSET HERALD, SOMERSET, PA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1888, p. 3
Michael A. Sanner Dead
To record the death of any person is always unpleasant, and often painful, to the surviving relative and friends. M. A. Sanner died at his home in Somerset on Sunday morning last in the 78th year of his age, having been born on the 21st of April, 1810 in Lower Turkeyfoot township, this county. Wth the ecxception of three years spent as a clerk in the Land Office at Harrisburg during the administration of Governor Bitner, he resided in Somerset county, and for the last fifty years in the town of Somerset. He first engaged in the mercantile business with Cyrus Benford and continued in that business for many years accumulating a large fortune, and at one time was regarded as the wealthiest man in the county. Mr. Sanner was also engaged in the banking business for many years and was eminently successful up until the time of the fire of 1872 by which he lost heavily, and the great panic of 1873, when through his generosity and favors to pretender friends he was stripped of the earnings of a laborious life. His failure in the early part of 1877 was caused by his inability to collect the large loans made to friends—could they have been collected, his indebtedness would have been cancelled and a large competency left. The fact that he died a poor man, is sufficient evidence that he was an honest one.
Mr. Sanner was a man of strong likes and dislikes, his friends drawn to him with hooks of steel, while his enemies were always acquainted with his position.
In 1846 he was married to Susan Patton, to whom he was always a most generous and devoted husband and she with her five grown children survive him. His departure is deplored by is many friends and will be to his immediate family an irreparable loss.
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