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Claude Elwood Shannon was born on 30 April 1916 in [[Petoskey, Michigan]].{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}}{{Sfn|Kahn|2025|p=1}} His family lived thirty miles south, in [[Gaylord, Michigan|Gaylord]], a town of about three thousand people in the northern part of the state's [[Lower Peninsula of Michigan|Lower Peninsula]].{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}{{Sfn|Nahin|2012|p=28}} His father, Claude Elwood Shannon Sr. (1862–1934), was a furniture dealer and undertaker who had arrived in Gaylord around 1900 from [[Oxford, New Jersey]]; he was descended from early New Jersey colonial settlers and served eleven years as Otsego County's probate judge.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}} His mother, Mabel Wolf Shannon (1880–1945), was a first-generation American whose father had emigrated from Germany to fight for the Union army. She taught languages at [[Gaylord High School]] and served seven years as its principal.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}} The family was active in the Methodist church.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}} Shannon had one sibling, an older sister, Catherine, who would go on to take a master's degree in mathematics at the [[University of Michigan]].{{Sfn|Nahin|2012|p=28}}

Claude Elwood Shannon was born on 30 April 1916 in [[Petoskey, Michigan]].{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}}{{Sfn|Kahn|2025|p=1}} His family lived thirty miles south, in [[Gaylord, Michigan|Gaylord]], a town of about three thousand people in the northern part of the state's [[Lower Peninsula of Michigan|Lower Peninsula]].{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}{{Sfn|Nahin|2012|p=28}} His father, Claude Elwood Shannon Sr. (1862–1934), was a furniture dealer and undertaker who had arrived in Gaylord around 1900 from [[Oxford, New Jersey]]; he was descended from early New Jersey colonial settlers and served eleven years as Otsego County's probate judge.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}} His mother, Mabel Wolf Shannon (1880–1945), was a first-generation American whose father had emigrated from Germany to fight for the Union army. She taught languages at [[Gaylord High School]] and served seven years as its principal.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}} The family was active in the Methodist church.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}} Shannon had one sibling, an older sister, Catherine, who would go on to take a master's degree in mathematics at the [[University of Michigan]].{{Sfn|Nahin|2012|p=28}}

[[File:Claude Shannon c1930.png|thumb|right|upright=0.75|Shannon before attending university]]

Shannon attended public school in Gaylord, finishing at its high school in three years and graduating in 1932 at the age of sixteen.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}} His tastes ran more to mechanical work than to schoolwork, and he was not among the three students recognized that year for straight A's.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}} At home he built model airplanes and a radio-controlled boat, repaired broken radios for a Gaylord department store, and delivered messages for [[Western Union]] to earn pocket money.{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}}{{Sfn|Nahin|2012|p=29}} His most ambitious project was a half-mile telegraph line strung between his house and a friend's, which used the strands of an existing barbed-wire pasture fence to carry the signal.{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}}{{Sfn|Nahin|2012|p=29}} Shannon's boyhood hero was [[Thomas Edison]], whom he later discovered was a distant relative; both men were descendants of the New Jersey colonial leader [[John Ogden (colonist)|John Ogden]].{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}}{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}

Shannon attended public school in Gaylord, finishing at its high school in three years and graduating in 1932 at the age of sixteen.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}} His tastes ran more to mechanical work than to schoolwork, and he was not among the three students recognized that year for straight A's.{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}} At home he built model airplanes and a radio-controlled boat, repaired broken radios for a Gaylord department store, and delivered messages for [[Western Union]] to earn pocket money.{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}}{{Sfn|Nahin|2012|p=29}} His most ambitious project was a half-mile telegraph line strung between his house and a friend's, which used the strands of an existing barbed-wire pasture fence to carry the signal.{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}}{{Sfn|Nahin|2012|p=29}} Shannon's boyhood hero was [[Thomas Edison]], whom he later discovered was a distant relative; both men were descendants of the New Jersey colonial leader [[John Ogden (colonist)|John Ogden]].{{Sfn|Sloane|Wyner|1993|p=xi}}{{Sfn|Soni|Goodman|2017|loc=ch. 1}}