Columbia-Lycoming-Lackawanna County PA Archives Biographies.....SHANNON, Joseph L. 1832 - living in 1899
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  JOSEPH L. SHANNON. The largest and best equipped meat market in Danville is that
  conducted by Joseph L. Shannon, the subject of this biographical sketch, and his
  son, under the firm name Shannon & Company. The establishment is located on Mill
  street, in Danville, but Mr. Shannon makes his residence in Riverside.
  Northumberland County, where he owns a fine home at D avenue and Sixth street.
  
    Mr. Shannon was born in Muncy township. Lycoming County, September 14, 1832,
  and is a son of Jesse and Rebecca (Lewis) Shannon. His grandfather was Daniel
  Shannon, who was a native of New Jersey and a pioneer farmer of Northumberland
  County, Pa., where he lived during his latter days. He was the father of the
  following children: Daniel; John; Jesse; Wesley; Susan; Mary; and Hettie.
  
    Jesse Shannon, the father of our subject, was born in Milton and, after
  learning the cooper's trade, moved to Bloomsburg, Columbia County, in 1834. He
  followed his trade in that town until 1843, when he moved upon a farm and
  engaged in agricultural pursuits until he retired to spend his declining years
  in ease. He passed into the unknown beyond in 1884, at the advanced age of
  eighty years. He served as constable of Bloomsburg for three years, and was also
  tax collector for some time. He was one of the old pioneers who established the
  Methodist Episcopal Church in Bloomsburg and vicinity and helped to build two
  churches. He was an active worker in the Sunday School and was a liberal
  supporter of the church financially. He was united in marriage with Rebecca
  Lewis, a daughter of Joseph Lewis, and they were the happy parents of the
  following children: Samuel, who died at the age of forty-three, was a Methodist
  minister; Joseph L., in whom the interest of this sketch centers; John W.; Jared
  Y., deceased; Jesse, deceased; James, who died in childhood; and Mary J., the
  wife of H. F. Omens. Mrs. Shannon passed to her eternal rest at the age of
  forty-nine years, and Mr. Shannon formed a second alliance with Annie E. Evans,
  and their children were: Joshua A.; Sarah R.; and one who died in infancy.
  
    Joseph L. Shannon attended the public schools and at the age of eighteen years
  became an apprentice to the harnessmaker's trade with John Markle of Providence,
  Pa. After a period of three years he moved to Bloomsburg, Columbia County, where
  he entered the employ of J. K. Grotz, remaining with that gentleman until 1854,
  wnen he engaged in the boating business for one year. He then associated himself
  with a Mr. Bomboy, under the firm name Bomboy & Shannon, in the meat business at
  Bloomsburg, which they followed with good results until the spring of 1862, when
  the firm was dissolved by mutual consent. In October, 1862, our subject was
  drafted to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War, but sent a substitute.
  In 1865 he enlisted in Company B, iO3d Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., as a sergeant,
  serving faithfully to the close of the war. In 1866 he again opened a meat
  market in Bloomsburg, to which he added a complete stock of groceries, and
  conducted it with good results until 1870, when he disposed of it and took up
  his residence in Riverside, where he has since resided. On market days he
  conducted a curb market in Danville until October 1, 1884, when, in partnership
  with his son, Jesse H., he established a meat market on Mill street in Danville,
  which they still conduct. Mr. Shannon's varied experience and comprehensive
  knowledge of the business has given to him the skill by which he is enabled to
  choose only the best meats for his customers. He not only handles beef, but
  deals in pork, mutton, lamb, veal and poultry, as well as cured and smoked meats
  and sausage. The firm does a very large business and numbers among its patrons
  the leading citizens of Danville. Our subject is a courteous and agreeable
  gentleman, highly esteemed in business circles as a man of strict integrity, and
  fully deserves the success he is meeting.
  
    On May 17, 1853, our subject was joined in wedlock to Anna M. Hess, a daughter
  of Jacob and Margaret Hess of Bloomsburg, Columbia County. To them have been
  born the following children: John Lewis, deceased; Anna Maria, deceased; Ralph
  C., a florist of Riverside; Jesse H., who is in business with his father,
  married Maggie Gulick, and they have three children, Helen, Ethel and Clyde;
  Charles L., deceased; Rebecca Jane, the wife of William Kimble; Emma A., the
  wife of R. B. Bird, a record of whose life appears elsewhere in this Book of
  Biographies; Joseph Wellington, Esq., a resident of Philadelphia, with an office
  at 1414 South Penn Square; Sophia Ann, a teacher in the public schools, is one
  of twins born to her parents, the other dying in infancy; Eva Mary, who is Mrs.
  John Landua, also had a twin sister who died young; and Catherine Elizabeth, a
  teacher.
  
     Mr. Shannon has been very active in public affairs and was chief burgess of
  Riverside for four successive terms. Religiously he is a Methodist and in 1871
  organized the first class in the Sunday School of the M. E. Church, and the
  meetings were held in the school house. In 1872 he assisted materially in
  building a church edifice for that denomination, in which Grace Episcopal Church
  is now located. In 1878 he aided in building the present M. E. Church, of which
  Rev. F. S. Vought is the present pastor, and has since acted as steward, trustee
  and an active class leader. Mr. Shannon's portrait is shown on another page in
  connection with the above sketch.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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