Shannon, Nathan bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 460, Astoria Township
Nathan Shannon, farmer, sec. 21; P. O., Astoria. The gentleman here named is a native of Tuscarawas Co., O., where he was born in 1833. At the early age of 16 he accompanied his parents, Eneas and Melinda Shannon, to Ill. They located in Astoria tp. on farm property where Nathan grew to manhood. When the war broke out he enlisted in Co. H, 85th Ill. Inf. He was honorably discharged in 1862, and returned to Fulton Co., where he has since followed farming. In 1855 he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Downey, daughter of Joseph Downey, by whom he has (blank) children, - Henry, Ewin, Maria, Ada, Irvin, Melinda, Walter, Hettrick and Eneas.
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