From collection General Photograph Collection
Photograph of William Alton Hanley in Kansas City, Missouri firefighter uniform in front of his home, 2515 Chestnut Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. Obituary newspaper clipping of William Alton Hanley, title reads "Heart Ailment Is Fatal to Fireman Who Had Served 34 Years." Copy of newspaper article is in vertical file. Memorial religious card with prayer text on it, printed with William Hanley, died February 2nd, 1936. William Alton Hanley was born November 6, 1874 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the third child of Nicholas Hanley and Catherine McEvoy Hanley, his older sisters were Agnes and Johanna. He died on February 2, 1936 from a heart ailment after a 34 year career as a Kansas City, Missouri firefighter. His father, Nicholas Hanley, came from Tupperary, Ireland and was born on April 6, 1834. He immigrated or was naturalized to the United States in 1859. A carpenter, he died July 2, 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri and was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. His mother, Catherine McEvoy Hanley, was born in Ireland on September 3, 1837. Her and Nicholas Hanley were married in Haddington Road Church on September 13, 1868. She died on September 26, 1881 and was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. His wife, May Register Hanley, was born on January 12, 1884 in Rosedale, Kansas. She died November 15, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her father was Stephen Register, and her mother Ida May Howard. Robert and Almura Skinner Register were the parents of Stephen Register. Catherine May Hanley was born in Kansas City, Missouri on July 22, 1906. She married James B. Crandall, and had three children with him, James B. Crandall (born 1932), Calhorne M. Crandall (born 1934), and Patricia A. Crandall (born 1936). She lived in Lincoln, Nebraska at the time of her father's death, and she died on February 28, 1979 in York, Pennsylvania. William Alton Hanley, Jr. was born in 1910.
