Brief Life History of Kenneth Mason
When Kenneth Mason Cannon was born on 25 October 1897, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, his father, David Henry Cannon Jr., was 37 and his mother, Camilla Ensign Mason, was 36. He married Madge Morrill on 28 November 1928, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in St. George Election Precinct, Washington, Utah, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 9 December 1981, in Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- Neda M Cannay, "United States 1950 Census"
- Kenneth Mason Cannon, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Kenneth M Cannon, "Utah, World War I Army Servicemen Records Abstracts, 1914-1918"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1899 · Hague Peace Convention
The Hague Peace Convention was a series conferences that produced treaties and declarations. The convention took place in Hague, Netherlands. The conferences were among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in secular international law.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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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