Biographical Sketch of S. L. Shannon, Johnson County, Missouri,
Chilhowee Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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S. L. Shannon was born in Johnson county in 1877.  He is one of the two
living sons of John S. and Nancy E. (Johnson) Shannon, his brother be-
ing Finis R., of Chilhowee, Missouri.  John S. Shannon was a son of 
Willis Shannon, a prosperous farmer of Kentucky.  Nancy E. (Johnson)
Shannon was a daughter of William Johnson, an honored pioneer of John-
son county.  The Shannon family, as the name well implies, is of Irish
lineage.  John Shannon came to Missouri in 1870 and two years later was
united in marriage with Nancy E. Johnson.  They settled on a farm one 
mile east of Chilhowee and on this place all their children were born.
At Stony Point, where S. L. Shannon attended school, Miss Irene Dunham
was teaching when Mr. Shannon started on the road of learning.  He was
later taught by George Bryson, Leslie Smith, and Charles McCaskill, all
early day teachers.  The pioneer preachers, whom he recalls having 
heard preach in his boyhood days, were: "Uncle Jim" Houx, Finis King,
and Z. T. Orr.  He attended the Sunday School held at Stony Point, of
which his father, John S. Shannon, was the first superintendent.  The
first lesson, which S. L. Shannon was taught in Sunday School at Stony
Point, was about Jacob's dream.  Leslie Smith, one of the teachers, 
sold a book called "The Story of the Bible."  Mr. Shannon purchased a
copy for his young son and perhaps no book in the Shannon home has been
as inspiring to S. L. Shannon when a youth as was that one.  He, him-
self, states that he has never forgotten the lessons it taught him and 
they laid the foundation for his later interest in church work.  Many
years after the time he first peeped within the covers of "The Story of
the Bible," S. L. Shannon became superintendent of the Shiloh Sunday
School and he now holds that position in the church there.  Mr. Shannon
was born and reared on the farm and he has always been interested in 
the pursuits of agriculture.  He inherited half of the old home place
and purchased his brother's half and is now the owner of 235 acres of 
land.  Mr. Shannon pursues the latest and most scientific methods of
farming and stock raising.  He is devoting much time and attention to
raising Poland China hogs and Durham cattle.  At the time of this writ-
ing, in 1917, he is milking eight cows.  The large barn on his farm 
will hold 75 tons of hay.  Mr. Shannon has been deservedly successful
in his chosen vocation.  In 1902, S. L. Shannon and Bertie James were
united in marriage.  Bertie (James) Shannon is a daughter of Calvin and
Sarah James, noble pioneers of Johnson county.  To Mr. and Mrs. Shannon
have been born three children: Ethel, Marion and Walter.  Both Mr. and
Mrs. Shannon are valued and worthy members of the Presbyterian church
and highly esteemed and respected in Johnson county.  Mr. Shannon is
affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and with the Mod-
ern Woodmen of America.  Politically, he is a Democrat.

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