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Jan 5, 2023 · George Shannon died suddenly on August 30, 1836, in Palmyra, Missouri at the age of 49. He had traveled to Palmyra to try a murder case. His obituary appeared in several newspapers including a short notice in Lexington’s Observer and Reporter.
George Shannon (c. 1785–1836), the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (not counting the infant Jean Baptiste Charbonneau), was born in Pennsylvania of Irish ancestry. He joined the Corps of Discovery in August 1803, as one of the three men (and Seaman) from Pittsburgh [2] recruited by Lewis as he was waiting for the completion ...
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Shannon’s solo 16-day adventure began on August 26, 1804, near present Vermillion, South Dakota, when he and George Drouillardwere sent out to hunt for the expedition’s few horses. The captains had instructed the two men to keep to the high ground and follow the boats up the river. Drouillard came back the next day, saying he had not seen the horse...
The next time Shannon was “lost,” in early August 1805, Clark sent him hunting up the Big Hole River in southwestern Montana.Ibid., 5:55. Evidently Clark believed Shannon had improved his skills as a woodsman during the eleven months since his first misadventure. Clark mistakenly believed the Big Hole to be the Jefferson River‘s feeder source from ...
Clark arranged for Shannon to assist Nicholas Biddle in editing the expedition’s journals, which were completed in 1812. Regarding Shannon’s abilities, Biddle wrote to Clark: “I have derived much assistance from that gentleman who is very intelligent and sensible & whom it was worth your while to send here.” Judging from Clark’s expressions of conf...
When the Corps of Discovery left the Knife River Villages on the 18 August 1806, en route home, they had two distinguished passengers in the red pirogue—the Mandan chief, Sheheke, also known as “Big White,” and his wife, Yellow Corn. They had accepted the captains’ invitation to accompany them to the United States to visit President Jefferson. In t...
George Shannon studied law more formally than many attorneys of the day, although he did not complete the two-year course at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He left college during his second year, in 1810, when political change in Washington, D.C., temporarily cut off his pension. Shannon had continued to study law while working wit...
Shannon was just a kid, barely 18 at the time – the youngest member of the Corps of Discovery, at least until baby Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born in the winter of 1805. Maybe it was due to his young age that Shannon became known as the soldier who got “lost” during the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- not once, but possibly twice.
Jun 21, 2017 · Though he had died at barely over 50 years old, George had packed that half-century with an amazing record of accomplishment after nearly having his life end before his 20 th birthday in those first months of the Lewis & Clark expedition. Few recall his contributions to the early history of the United States today, but George Shannon was an ...
hello everyone, I am looking for any traces of GEORGE SHANNON. He was born in Ireland, but apparently died at 12 Napier street, Penicuik. I am estimating his death is positively after 1835, and possibly before 1850.
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Mar 4, 2023 · George died 1836 in Missouri. George F. Shannon was born about 1787 in Pennsylvania, the son of George David Shannon and Jane Milligan. The family lived in Ohio about 1803 for the father died there.
