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Franklin Jenne Cannon

Frank, Senator Cannon

25 January 1859—25 July 1933

Born 25 Jan. 1859 in Salt Lake City.1 Son of George Quayle Cannon and Sarah Jane Jenne.2 Half brother of EBW’s son-in-law John Q. Cannon.3 Married Martha Anderson Brown in Salt Lake City, 4 Apr. 1878.4 Graduated from the University of Deseret, 1878.5 Reporter for the Deseret News, Ogden Junction, and San Francisco Chronicle.6 Served as deputy county clerk and recorder in Ogden, Weber Co., Utah Territory.7 Editor of the Ogden Herald, 1887.8 Founded the Ogden Standard, Jan. 1888.9 Served as Utah territorial delegate to U.S. Congress.10 Represented Utah in U.S. Senate, 1896–1899.11 Married May Anderson Brown, sister of his deceased wife.12 Served as president of the Bimetallic Association and chairman of the International Silver Commission.13 Died 25 July 1933 in Denver; buried in Ogden.14

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. H, p. 55, Franklin Jenne Cannon, 7 July 1873, microfilm 183407, FHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 5 Dec. 2017), Franklin Jenne Cannon (K2WH-FVY).  

  2. 2 Salt Lake City Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, 1907–1922, Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, CHL. “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. H, p. 55, Franklin Jenne Cannon, 7 July 1873, microfilm 183407, FHL.

  3. 3 Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 504–505. Davis Bitton, George Q. Cannon: A Biography (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1999), 463.

  4. 4 “Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. K, p. 457, Franklin Jenne Cannon and Martha Anderson Brown, 4 Apr. 1878, microfilm 183401, FHL.

  5. 5“Final Honors Will Today Be Paid to Frank Cannon,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, 30 July 1933, 5.

  6. 6“Final Honors Will Today Be Paid to Frank Cannon,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, 30 July 1933, 5.  

  7. 7 Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1961: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1775, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First to the Eighty-Sixth Congress March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1961, Inclusive. Washington DC: United States Government Print Office 1961.

  8. 8 “Standard Examiner Through the Years,” Ogden (UT) Standard Examiner, 3 July 2014 (http://www.standard.net/libercus/default/The-News-Starts-Here/2014/07/03/Standard-Examiner-Through-the-Years, accessed 28 Nov. 2017). “Final Honors Will Today Be Paid to Frank Cannon,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, 30 July 1933, 5.

  9. 9 “About the Ogden Standard-Examiner,” Chronicling America (https://chronolcingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058393, accessed 8 Jan. 2018). “Final Honors Will Today Be Paid to Frank Cannon,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, 30 July 1933, 5.  

  10. 10 “Final Honors Will Today Be Paid to Frank Cannon,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, 30 July 1933, 5.

  11. 11 “Frank Cannon, Former Utah Senator, Dead at Age of 73,” Ogden (UT) Standard Examiner, 26 July 1933, [1].

  12. 12“Frank Cannon, Former Utah Senator, Dead at Age of 73,” Ogden (UT) Standard Examiner, 26 July 1933, [1].

  13. 13 “An inventory of the papers of Frank Jenne Cannon,” Library of the State Historical Society of Colorado, forward (http://legacy.historycolorado.org/, accessed 21 Dec. 2017).

  14. 14 “Frank Cannon, Former Utah Senator, Dead at Age of 73,” Ogden (UT) Standard Examiner, 26 July 1933, [1]. “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Utah Division of State History (http://heritage.utah.gov/history/cemeteries, accessed 9 Jan. 2018), Frank J Cannon.