Background
Shannon, Fred Albert was born on February 12, 1893 in Sedalia, Missouri, United States. Son of Louis Tecumseh and Sarah Margaret (Sparks) Shannon.
Shannon, Fred Albert was born on February 12, 1893 in Sedalia, Missouri, United States. Son of Louis Tecumseh and Sarah Margaret (Sparks) Shannon.
He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Indiana State Teachers College and an Master of Arts Five years later, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Iowa and became assistant professor of history at the Iowa State Teachers College.
By 1900, his family was living in Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana. degree at Indiana University in 1918. He worked as a school teacher, and then became professor of history at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1919. In 1926, he moved to the Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, where he was associate professor of history for several years.
During this time, he also taught at Cornell College (1924) and Ohio State University (1929) in the summer session.
From 1939 to 1961, he was professor of history at the University of Illinois and served many years as chairman of its history department. Personal life They had five children.
Lucile, Mary, Edna, Marjory and Frederick A. Shannon, Doctor of Medicine, herpetologist. He died on February 4, 1963.
He had just begun a semester as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina.
Shannon edited various publications and contributed to professional journals. He wrote history from the perspective of an average American. He believed that it was the value of average Americans that shaped the United States, and he had low regard for wealthy Americans.
In 1928 Shannon wrote a two-volume book The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865, which covered the history of the Union Army.
Since his death, some of Shannon"s writing on Southern slavery has been criticized as being racist.
(1965 reprint of 1928 edition, in 2 volumes. Volume I, 323...)
Member American History Association, Mississippi Valley History Association (Executive Committee 1926-1929, 1931-1934, 1948-1951 and, 1952-1960.
Married Edna May Jones, November 26, 1914 (deceased. Children: Lucile Nellie (Mistress Doctorate. A. Vaughan), Edna May (Mistress Knut Andersen deceased), Frederick A. (deceased), Mary M. (Mistress R. J. Sommer), Marjory Faith (Mistress C. West. King).