A. N. Shoun, lawyer, of the firm of Ingersoll & Shoun, was born in Johnson County, Tenn., November 1, 1851, the son of G. H. and Theodosia (Wilson) Shoun, the former born in that city in 1821, the son of Andrew, a native of the same, and he a son of Leonard, a pioneer of that county. The father, a successful merchant, is now retired at Rheatown, where he removed at the close of the war. The mother was born in 1824 in Johnson County, and is the daughter of Andrew Wilson. Both parents are members of the Christian Church. Our subject was thirteen years of age when the family moved to Rheatown, and he spent one year (1865) in Emory and Jefferson College, Knox County; then one year in the Rheatown Academy, and finally graduated from Emory and Henry College, Va., in June, 1871. He read law in the office of Judge H. H. Ingersoll two years, and was admitted to the bar in 1873, his license being signed by Judges Smith and Gillenwaters, and also by the master of the supreme court. For over three years he was engaged as merchant with his father, studying meanwhile, especially history. In 1878 he began his present law partnership. In 1873, Kate, a daughter of Thomas Johnson, became his wife. They have four children. She is a Methodist.
