resting_place death_date death_place children birth_place resting_place_coordinates name birth_date alma_mater spouse article_title birth_name occupation death_cause
wickenburg , usa cemetery , wickenburg , maricopa county , arizona 31 august 1965 los usa angeles , los angeles county , california , david , and lorelei fredericka mount pleasant , henry county , iowa , usa plot : section 2 row o space 3 frederick a. shannon 4 may 1921 university of illinois frances frederick a. shannon
 frederick albert shannon herpetologist and medical doctor rattlesnake envenomation
frederick a. shannon

frederick a. shannon -lrb- may 4 , 1921 in mount pleasant , iowa -- august 31 , 1965 in los angeles county , california -rrb- was a u.s. herpetologist and medical doctor .
he was born the son of fred albert shannon and edna m. -lrb- jones -rrb- shannon .
in 1939 , shannon moved to champaign , illinois and began studying zoology at the university of illinois , where he got a b.a. in zoology in 1943 .
he then started studying medicine and got an m.d. in 1947 .
he practised for one year at the st. joseph 's hospital in phoenix , arizona before going back to illinois for some post-graduate herpetology work .
in 1949 he moved to wickenburg , arizona .
between 1951 and 1953 , shannon was sent as a lieutenant to korea , where he still found opportunities to collect many reptile specimens .
back in the u.s. , he published many articles on poisonous snake bites , venomology , and herpetology .
from 1956 on , he collected specimens mainly in mexico .
he died from the bite of a mojave rattlesnake he had attempted to catch .
