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Louise Blanche Cannon

Louise Andrew, Sweetie, Mrs. Louise C. Andrew

30 July 1884—6 October 1967

Born 30 July 1884 in Salt Lake City.1 Daughter of John Quayle Cannon and Elizabeth Ann Wells.2 Granddaughter of EBW.3 Baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by her father, 30 July 1892.4 Companion and office assistant for EBW.5 Participated in the first game of the new Girls’ Bowling League, Mar. 1902.6 Married Richard Denton Andrew, 19 Dec. 1907, in Salt Lake City; five children.7 Member and treasurer of the Utah State Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1921–1930.8 Award-winning gardener.9 Librarian for the Salt Lake Public Libraries, 1929–1946.10 Died 6 Oct. 1967 in Salt Lake City.11

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Endowments of the Living, 1893–1956; Indexes, 1893–1956,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. C, p. 250, line 6738, Louise Blanche Cannon, 4 Dec. 1907, microfilm 184069 (limited access), FHL. “Utah State Archives Indexes,” database and images, Utah State Archives (https://archives.utah.gov, accessed 2 Aug. 2018), file no. 67185276, Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, series 81448. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 2 Aug. 2018), Louise Blanche Cannon (KWC4-HJR). 

  2. 2 “Endowments of the Living, 1893–1956; Indexes, 1893–1956,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. C, p. 250, line 6738, Louise Blanche Cannon, 4 Dec. 1907, microfilm 184069 (limited access), FHL. Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 505.

  3. 3 Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 505.

  4. 4 “Endowments of the Living, 1893–1956; Indexes, 1893–1956,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. C, p. 250, line 6738, Louise Blanche Cannon, 4 Dec. 1907, microfilm 184069 (limited access), FHL.

  5. 5 EBW, Diary, 27 Oct. 1897; 17 Dec. 1898; 16 Jan. 1900; 8 Jan. 1901; 11 May 1901; 26 June 1901; 13 June 1902; 12 Jan. 1904; 27 Oct. 1904.

  6. 6 “Sports: Large Feminine Attendance at First Game of New League,” Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Mar. 1902, 3.

  7. 7 Salt Lake Co., UT, Clerk, Marriage Records, 1887–1965, vol. 15, 1907–1908, no. 5603, Richard D. Andrew and Louise B. Cannon, 19 Dec. 1907, microfilm 429069, DGS 4705945, image 12/878, FHL. 1930 U.S. Census, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT, ED 18-39, sheet 3A, Richard D. Andrew. Abbie H. Wells, Descendants and Ancestors of President Daniel Hanmer Wells (https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE5103633, accessed 29 Aug. 2018), 52.

  8. 8 History of the Utah State Society Daughters of the Revolution, MS 30642, image 280/504, CHL. “Secretaries’ Schedule of Club Life,” Salt Lake Telegram, 11 May 1930, 23.

  9. 9 “You and Your Garden: Salt Lake Club Holds Spring Flower Show,” Salt Lake Telegram, 27 May 1948, 20. “Grand Exposition: S.L. County Fair Receives Praise as All-Time Best,” Sat Lake Telegram, 27 Aug. 1949, 9.

  10. 10 1930 U.S. Census, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT, ED 18-39, sheet 3A, Richard D. Andrew. 1940 U.S. Census, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT, ED no. 30-81, p. 10A, Richard D. Andrew. “Intermountain Obituaries: Louise C. Andrew,” Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 1967, 34. Salt Lake City Directory (Salt Lake City: R. L. Polk, 1929), 179. Salt Lake City Directory (Salt Lake City: R. L. Polk, 1946), 55.    

  11. 11 “Utah State Archives Indexes,” database and images, Utah State Archives (https://archives.utah.gov, accessed 2 Aug. 2018), file no. 67185276, Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, series 81448. “Intermountain Obituaries: Louise C. Andrew,” Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 1967, 34.