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Cannon, Annie Wells, 1859-1942

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1859 - 1942

Biographical History

Annie Wells Cannon (1859-1942) was a prominent woman of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and active in local Utah government.

Elizabeth Anne ("Annie") Wells was born to Emmeline Branch Woodward and Daniel Hammer Wells in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 7, 1895. She attended the University of Deseret. Annie married John Quayle Cannon on March 17, 1880, and together they had twelve children.

During her life Annie was the first president of the War Mothers of Utah, served as president of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and was actively involved in the Red Cross. From 1919 to the end of her life, Annie was on the Relief Society General Board. She was a member of the Utah State Legislature in 1913-1915 and 1921. In 1921 she was appointed by President Herbert Hoover to be the chairman for Utah's European Relief Drive. She died on September 2, 1942 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Citation:
Journals, 1877-1942 t.p.(Annie Wells Cannon, b. 1859 d. 1942)

Our legacy: Relief Society centennial anthology of verse by Latter-day Saint women, 1835-1942, 1941: t.p. (Annie Wells Cannon)

UPB files, July 15, 2002 (Annie Wells Cannon; b. 7 September 1859, Salt Lake City to Daniel Hanmer Wells and Emmeline Blanche Woodward Wells; married John Q Cannon and had twelve children; activist for women's suffrage; member of the Utah State Legislature from 1913-1915 and again in 1921; d. 2 September 1942)

UPB files, Jan. 26, 2017 (Annie Wells Cannon; m. Mar. 17, 1880; president of War Mothers of Utah 1918; appointed to Relief Society General Board 1919; chairman of Utah's European Relief Drive in early 1921; Red Cross work; attended University of Deseret; talk from her funeral describes service in Utah House of Representatives)

FamilySearch, Jan. 26, 2017 (Elizabeth Anne ("Annie") Wells; b. Dec. 7, 1895; d. September 2, 1942; parents Emmeline B. Wells and Daniel H. Wells; spouse John Quayle Cannon) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NQHS-DMX

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Cannon and Willis families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2216
Abstract Boxes 1 and 2 being mostly manuscript material and booklets (as well as a few photographs), and boxes 3-5 being diaries and a folder of photocopies from a scrapbook and an autobiography. Most the manuscript material is typescript in form, coming from various persons. Boxes 3, 4, and the first folder of 5 contain all 33 of Lucy Grant Cannon's diaries. Some of her diaries overlap, meaning she apparently kept, sometimes, two or even three diaries at the same time. Her last six diaries, black in...
Dates: 1891-2003

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