Quayle Cannon Jr. mission journals and papers, 1926-1931

Sub-Series — Carton: 1, Folder: 5-8

Identifier: MSS 6154 Series 1 Sub-Series 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Contains journals and papers written by Quayle Cannon, Jr. while on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Swiss-German Mission. Contains two mission journals, one mission record book, and one notebook. Dated 1926-1931.

Dates

1926-1931

Creator

Cannon, Quayle, 1906-1990 (creator, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Donald Q. Cannon faculty and family papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Coordinating Committee.

Biographical History

Quayle Cannon, Jr., (1906-1990) was a life insurance agent in Salt Lake City, Utah, who served a Mormon mission in the Swiss-German Mission from 1926 to 1929.

Quayle Cannon, Jr., was born on July 5, 1906, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Quayle and Eugenia Silver Cannon. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Swiss-German Mission from 1926 to 1929. On April 10, 1936, Cannon married Fay Allred in Washington, D.C.; she died on June 27, 1969. He later married Lanor Hailstone Rowe on June 18, 1971, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Cannon graduated from the University of Utah in 1933 with a major in German. He taught German in the Salt Lake City school district before he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1935 to work for the Federal Housing Administration, where he married Fay Allred a year later. He and his new family moved back to Salt Lake City a few years later, where he worked for the Kennecott Copper Corp. for a few years before he began a career as a life insurance agent with Occidental Life in 1942. Active in the Republican Party, Cannon was elected to the Utah House of Representatives for two terms and served many years as the Secretary of the Utah State Senate.

Throughout his life, Cannon was active in the Church, serving as the Mutual Improvement Association president, Sunday School superintendent, and High Councilor in the Ensign Stake. He loved working in his yard, and was a master gardner. Quayle Cannon, Jr., died on August 28, 1990, in Bountiful, Utah.