William Tenney Cannon Jr

Brief Life History of William Tenney

When William Tenney Cannon Jr was born on 21 July 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Tenney Cannon, was 27 and his mother, Emily Ada Croxall, was 27. He married Geneve Ida Anderson on 30 April 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 5 November 1983, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Tenney Cannon Jr
1898–1983
Geneve Ida Anderson
1900–1986
Marriage: 30 April 1919
Helen Geneve Cannon
1922–2013
William Tenney Cannon III
1924–2014
Russell Anderson Cannon
1928–2014
Sally Cannon
1934–2011
Cannon
1936–1936

Sources (39)

  • William T Cannon, "United States 1950 Census"
  • William T Carmon, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1941"
  • William Tenney Cannon, "Utah, World War I County Draft Board Registers, Name Index, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1899 · The Salt Palace Convention Center

The original Salt Palace was built in 1899 and It stood on 900 South, between State Street and Main Street. The Salt Palace was a frame structure covered in large pieces of rock salt, which gave it its name. The Salt Palace was destroyed by fire on August 29, 1910 and was replaced by the Majestic Hall. This Hall only lasted for a while during the remodel of the Salt Palace. The Salt Palace served as the Olympic Media Center during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake Comic Con has been held at the Salt Palace Convention Center since September 2013.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

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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