Samuel Hanna (1797-1866) arrived in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1819, ​speculated heavily in land, the Wabash & Erie Canal, and ​railroads, and became one of the city's most influential pioneer ​settlers. He married Eliza Taylor (1803-1888) and had a large ​family. The Hannas kept a photograph album from the 1860s ​through 1890s, which included pictures of the Hanna children ​and grandchildren, as well as their friends, school mates, and ​associates. Among the allied families are those of the Samuel H. ​And Mary (Barbour) Shoaff of Miami County, Ohio, and the ​Barnett and Wall families of Fort Wayne. Most of the images are ​original cartes de visite from the 1860s and 1870s, preserved with ​original identifications. The album documents one of the most ​wealthy and influential families of Fort Wayne in the nineteenth ​and early twentieth centuries.