Brief Life History of Elmer Vandegrift
When Elmer Vandegrift Cannon was born on 3 January 1906, in Hickory Plains, Prairie, Arkansas, United States, his father, George Richard Cannon, was 37 and his mother, Mary Charlestonia Rollins, was 33. He married Irma Aliene Grotjan on 12 November 1927, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Roanoke, Virginia, United States in 1935. He died on 16 October 1990, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Affton, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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- Elmer Cannon, "United States Census, 1920"
- Elmer Vandegrift Cannon, "Find a Grave Index"
- Elmer Cannon, "United States Census, 1930"
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1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Ó Canann or Ó Canáin ‘descendant of Cano or Canán’. Occasionally, and in the Isle of Man, the surname derives from Mac Canann ‘son of Cano or Canán’, which in Ireland was Anglicized McCann or McConnon . See also Connon . The personal name is from Gaelic cano ‘wolf cub’, of which Canán is a diminutive. In Ulster Cannon may also be shortened from Ó Canannáin ‘descendant of Canannán’, a pet form (double diminutive) of the personal name. This was a cheiftan family in Donegal, and the name was particularly common there.
English: from Middle English canun ‘canon’ (Old Norman French canonie, canoine, from Late Latin canonicus). In medieval England this term denoted a clergyman living with others in a clergy house; the surname is mostly an occupational name for a servant in a house of canons, although it could also be a nickname or even a patronymic.
French: variant of Canon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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