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Note: H00214
Note: Peter filed his intention papers for citizenship on 01 June 1889. He was granted citizenship on 27 August 1894. 1889: Cascade County, MT 1896: Sand Coulee, MT 1900: Neihart, MT 1910: Lewiston, MT 1918: Bremerton, MT 1920: Bremerton, WA 1928: d. Bremerton, WA **** Newspaper research: 22 July 1902, Anaconda Standard: "Peter Shannon left Neihart on Wednesday for Great Falls. Mr. Shannon will visit several places on his trip with the view of looking up a new place." 02 Aug 1902, Anaconda Standard: "Neihart, July 29. Peter Shannon returned home after a tour of the state Saturday." 16 Aug 1902, Anaconda Standard: "Peter Shannon went to Great Falls on business." 19 Aug 1902, Anaconda Standard: "Peter Shannon returned Thursday from a trip to the Electric City." 29 Nov 1916, Anaconda Standard: "Mrs. Peter Shannon has returned from a three months trip to the coast." 01 Oct 1917, Anaconda Standard: "Reports were received here last night of a burglary at the store of Peter Shannon, the Suffolk merchant, the post office also being in his store. The crooks also blew open the safe, but Mr. Shannon had removed the money early in the evening and they got little booty. The store was set on fire, but the blaze was soon extinguished, several persons having been awakened by the explosion. The stock of stamps, amounting to $300, and the post office records were destroyed." 29 Nov 1917, Anaconda Standard: "Three Adjudged Bankrupt. Three men were adjudged bankrupt in federal court yesterday. They are James Wulf, Peter Shannon, and James B. Clifton. Respective referees appointed to act were Haskins in the first case, and Gray in the latter two." 10 Jun 1918, Anaconda Standard: "Miss Evelyn Shannon, well known in this city and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Shannon, has been accepted for service at the Bremerton navy yard for service as a yeoman. She is the first to take such a position from this county. She will leave for Bremerton in a few days." 03 Aug 1918, Anaconda Standard: "Peter Shannon, for many years a merchant here and later at Suffolk, has sold out and will locate with his family at Bremerton, Wash. His daughter, Evelyn Shannon, a high school graduate here, is employed at the Bremerton navy yard as a yeomanette." 09 Oct 1927, Seattle Daily Times: "Mr. and Mrs. Peter Shannon of Bremerton, have recently announced the marriage of their daughter, Helen, at Long Beach, Cal., to Lieutenant Irving Carol Duke, U. S. N. Lieutenant Duke is attached to the U. S. S. Tennessee, and he and his bride will make their home in Long Beach for the winter." 08 Jan 1928, Seattle Daily Times: "Bremerton Paper's Circulation Chief Killed by Machine. BREMERTON, Saturday, Jan. 7--Peter Shannon, 65 years old, circulation manager of The News Searchlight, was instantly killed when struck by an automobile driven by W. C. Stockwell, former chief of police at Charleston, now a member of the Bremerton police force. Officer Sockwell said Mr. Shannon unexpectedly stepped into the path of his machine from behind a parked car. Mr. Shannon's death gave Bremerton its second auto fatality this year. His widow and three daughters, Mrs. A. A. Poirer of Harlowtown, Mont., Mrs. I. T. Duke, Long Beach, Cal.; and Miss Este Shannon of Bremerton, now visiting in California, survive Mr. Shannon. He had been a resident of Bremerton for twelve years. The body was taken to the Lewis Undertaking Company."
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Note: H00374
Note: From TW (E-mail dated 11 October 2005"]: Peter Shannon immigrated to Deadwood, SD, where he worked with his brother, who was a barber. I don't know why Mary Jane was there, but they met and married...Peter later ran general stores in the silver mining town of Neihart and then in Great Falls, finally and for many years in Lewistown, Mont. While the family were there, they homesteaded, a process which required some members of the family to "prove" their claim by living on the land during the summers for three years and producing crops. The third year there was a good crop of wheat and then along came a hail storm which ruined it. and therefore their hopes of becoming ranchers. But undaunted, Mary Jane told the girls to gather up some of the hailstones and then made ice cream. Real British fortitude. Peter Shannon went bankrupt (apparently he was a typical Irishman, poetic [note the three girls' names] and not good at collecting bills). At that point, when my mother had just graduated from high school, the family moved to Bremerton, where Evie had gone to enlist in the women's army corps (only to change her mind when she found that it was composed of some not so nice girls) and then settled ona job at the Naval base (I think). Both Estie and Dutchie worked as secretaries. ... You will have gathered that much of the family is Roman Catholic. This is particularly true of the Irish cousins, and also true of the Poiriers. I think it is an interesting suggestion of the family dynamic in the case of Peter and Mary Jane. Evie was baptised and confirmed a Roman Catholic; Estie baptised a Roman Catholic, confirmed an Episcopalean; Helen baptised and confirmed an Episcopalean. Guess who increasingly dominated that family!"
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