Perryman B. Shannon of Madison County, Texas

Perryman B. Shannon, who has been a successful merchant of Madison county since 1902, is a worthy son of a worthy sire. He was born in Choctaw county, Mississippi, September 3, 1873, and his boyhood in Texas was spent for five years on his father’s ranch in Frio county. His education was secured in the schools of Madison county, prior to a collegiate course, and in 1897 he was graduated from Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, with the degree of Bachelor of Sciences. He had taught for two years in the country schools of Madison county, and subsequent to his graduation he taught three years at Iola and two years at Bedias, and while in Grimes county he acted as a member of the board of county Teachers Examiners. His last teaching was at Ingram, Kerr county, Texas, in 1907, and in that same year he entered actively into mercantile pursuits at Mecca, Madison county. Following this, he came to North Zulch, where he has been prominently identified with the business interests of the city as the proprietor of a thriving mercantile business. He also aided in the organization of the Farmers Guaranty State Bank of North Zulch of which he is now president. He is a man of sterling integrity and high business ability, and his activities have done much to forward the interests of the town. In political matters Mr. Shannon is a Democrat, and has been identified with county matters as precinct chairman and in numerous other capacities. He has attended congressional conventions, and was secretary of the convention at Houston that nominated Pinkney for Congress. Fraternally, he is connected with the Blue Lodge and Chapter of Masonry, the latter of Normangee. Although brought up in the faith of the Presbyterian church, he is now affiliated with the Methodists.

Mr. Shannon was married in Madison county, Texas, June 2, 1912, to Miss Etta Hollis, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Boone) Hollis, the latter a lineal descendant of Daniel Boone, of Kentucky.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

The above article was originally published in 1914 by The American Historical Society of Chicago and New York. It appears in "A History of Texas and Texans", by Frank W. Johnson, as edited and brought up to date by Eugene C. Barker, Ph. D., then Professor of History at the University of Texas with the assistance of Ernest William Winkler, M.A., Texas State Librarian. The article appears in Volume V of the set.