Brief Life History of Edwin Quayle
When Edwin Quayle Cannon Jr was born on 6 May 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Edwin Quayle Cannon, was 31 and his mother, Edith Luella Wareing, was 29. He married Janath Russell on 13 August 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1953 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 April 2005, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Edwin Q Cannon, Jr, "United States 1950 Census"
- Edwin Q Or Ted Cannon, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Edwin Quayle Cannon, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1923 · President Harding visits Utah to get to know the people.
President Warren G. Harding's visited Utah as part of a broader tour of the western United States designed to bring him closer to the people and their conditions. After Speaking at Liberty Park, the president went to the Hotel Utah where he met with President Heber J. Grant and talked to him about the history of the church.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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