The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-06

enworth family Is at present extinct, also. for a description of the coat-of-arms.
 The Leavenworth family presents one of the very few instances where an Amer
 ican family of pure English origin Is now
 the sole representative of the name 1t
 took from the mother country. After the
 most diligent and painstaking search
 throughout the length and breadth of
 England the genealogist has not found
 the name to be in existence there at the
 present time. But the American family.
 and offshoot of the now extinct English
 family Is to be founs represented in al most every state in the union.
 The origin of this name is not definitely
 known. It may be an anglicised Sorm of the Germanic Iowenworth, or possibly d deviation of the English surname Lev enoth. But the most likely theory is that ] Levenworth or Leavenworth, is derived fro mthe Welsh patronymic Llyongworth. The name is obviously an ancient one, but it surely was never at all usual
 The arms of the Leavenworth family are described: Argent. on a chevron azure between three leopards statant guardant 1 proper a crescent argent. The crest is an
 arm endowed in armor graspng a sword 1 proper.
 To T. Shannon who asks for an account
 of the New England Shannons.
 | Nathaniel Shannon was the first man l of his name in New England, where he
 arrived in 1887 at the age of thirty-two l He was born in 1925. at Londonderry, LII.
 ster county, Ireland of an old Scotch Irish family of strong Presbyterian ale
 glance. He was poor but he was well 1 educated and he had perseverance and
 energy, so he was just the sort of man to
 make a success of his life In an unsettled
 community.
 1 Nathaniel came from an important fam 1 fly in Ireland. His brother Robert was mayor of Londonderry, appointed by l King James II, In 1888 and removed by Queen Anne for religious reasons in 17O4.
 He took part in the defense of London derry against siege in 1889.
 | There is a tradition that Robert, broth CT of the first American Shannon, was mayor of Dublin, but this tradition Is not
 borne out by records, and Robert Shan non, brother of Nathaniel. really was the
 mayor of Londonderry. The same tradi- tion which makes Robert Shannon mayor
 of Dublin states that the first American
 Shannon-whose first name Is not given
 had son, born on the ocean. whom he named Seaborn and who afterward be. ! came shipmaster and died in the Wes Indies. Before his death, says the tra dition. he lived in New Hampshire where he left two sons-Nathaniel and Cutts. To B. D.-John Russell was born ir England in 172o He had nine children One of them, Samuel. settled at Niagara Canada. Isaac, another son, settled 1T Kent, Canada. Christopher settled 1T Pennsylvania and Thomas settled fl Maryland William settled in Toronto Canada in ISIS. He was born in 17S5 His son Isaac was born in 1907 in Eng land. married Mary Walton and hat George w., Mary E., Samuel, Jane, Saral E. and Isabella M. Samuel, of this gen eration, born near Toronto, in 1885, moved to Ohio in 1888, to Utah in 1861, and ther. settled in Salt Lake City.
 William Russell of New Haven Conn. was born In Hertfordshire, England, Oc tober II. 1912. He was allowed to use tn, ; prefix MT. to his name which was il those days a great privilege. He married Sarah Havis, and had a son, Nodiah, O Mddletown. an early graduate of liar. ward. in 1881. He was one of the founder, of Yale college and was distinguishe. divine of his time and place His SOY Daniel was graduated at the college hi, father helped to found. He was ordained
 the first minister of stepney, now Rock, Hill. in 124. His son Nathaniel movef to Winsted, Conn He was in the sta f.
 legislature of Connecticut He was ,
 minister. like so many of his ancestors
 In 1892 he moved to Great Falls, Mont.