Early Life
Hahn was born in Klingenmünster, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and immigrated with his mother and four siblings to New York and then to Texas. The family arrived in New Orleans in 1840, when Hahn was 10 years old. The following year his mother died of yellow fever. Hahn graduated from City High School, and in 1849, began reading law under Christian Roselius, a prominent Whig attorney and later Attorney General of Louisiana.
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