Joseph Jenne Cannon

Brief Life History of Joseph Jenne

When Joseph Jenne Cannon was born on 22 May 1877, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Quayle Cannon, was 50 and his mother, Sarah Jane Jenne, was 37. He married Florence Groesbeck on 23 September 1904, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in London, England, United Kingdom in 1935 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 5 November 1945, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Jenne Cannon
1877–1945
Ramona Stevenson Wilcox
1887–1978
Marriage: 1 January 1914
Elizabeth Wilcox Cannon
1914–1970
Adrian Wilcox Cannon
1917–1991
Bryant Wilcox Cannon
1922–1996
Mark Wilcox Cannon
1928–2020

Sources (82)

  • Joseph Cannon in household of Sarah J. Cannon, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Joseph J. Cannon, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Joseph Jenne Cannon, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1888 · The Whitehall Mystery

The Whitehall Mystery has some ties to Jack the Ripper, the victim was female and had been dismembered. The arms were found first; the headless torso to which they belonged was found a month later. The rest of the body was never discovered and the mystery was never solved.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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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