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collieries soon thrived in a remarkable manner, shortly afterwards Mr Hann was appointed general manager of the company's collieries in the
Aberdare and Tredegar districts. During the 35 years he has been connected with the company Mr Hann has seen many changes in the great concern of which he is the head. now one of the most prosperous undertakings in the South Wales coalfield".
276:. There were certainly five sons. Several of them followed their father into the South Wales Mining Industry. A small portrait of the family (and another confirmation of the Oaklands location) comes in the wedding note for the fifth son Frank Percival Hann who was married in 1913. Frank Percival Hann along with his younger brother Douglas Alfred were both born in
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Percival is noted as a colliery manager elected to membership in 1905. The Edmund L. Hann elected in 1902 and resident in Aberdare in the same list is another sibling, this E.L. Hann is likely to be the third son Edmund Lawrence Hann, who is mentioned along with two other of Edmund Mills Hann's
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Liberal tradesman, T.P. White. The result was regarded with surprise in some quarters and when White was elevated to the aldermanic bench it was felt locally that Hann would be successful in the subsequent by-election. However, Hann was again defeated by a different Liberal
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reviewed his contribution to the South Wales mining industry thus "At the age of 29 he was appointed manager of one of the Powell
Duffryn Pits at New Tredegar, being afterwards transferred to the Aberdare Valley as general manager of the company's pits there. Under his supervision the Aberdare
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Using this source, the first son to follow father into the coal industry was George G. Hann also of
Aberdare in 1914 and first elected to this institute in 1898. Sadly George Hann predeceased his father dying in 1918.
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These sons can also be found in lists of company directors associated with their father. So in 1928 the
Rhymney Iron Co. has both E. L. Hann and E. M. Hann as directors. The general manager is D. A. Hann.
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candidate, Thomas Davies. Hann thereafter recognised that gaining seat on the County
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