Herman Ellsworth Cannon

Brief Life History of Herman Ellsworth

When Herman Ellsworth Cannon was born on 25 December 1914, in Farmingdale, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel Edwin Cannon, was 36 and his mother, Alice Laura Curtis, was 29. He lived in Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine, United States in 1935 and Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine, United States in 1940. He died on 4 July 1979, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 64.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Edwin Cannon
1878–1932
Alice Laura Curtis
1885–1970
Louena Evelyn Cannon
1905–1998
Herman Ellsworth Cannon
1914–1979
Muriel Alluie Cannon
1918–

Sources (7)

  • Herman E Cannon, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Herman Cannon, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Sherman Ellsworth, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"

World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1917 · World War I Contributions

The legislature of Maine dedicated approximately $1 million towards World War I at the time that US involvement began. By the time armistice would be declared in 1918, Maine contributed roughly 35,000 men and $116 million.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

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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