Abraham H. Cannon

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Abraham H. Cannon

Full name	Abraham Hoagland Cannon
Born	March 12, 1859(1859-03-12)
Place of birth	Salt Lake City, Utah Territory
Died	July 19, 1896 (aged 37)
Place of death	Salt Lake City, Utah
LDS Church Apostle
Called by	Wilford Woodruff
Ordained	October 7, 1889 (aged 30)
Reason for ordination	Excommunication of Albert Carrington; death of John Taylor and reorganization of the First Presidency; death of Erastus Snow^[1]
End of term	July 19, 1896 (aged 37)
Reason for end of term	Death
Reorganization at end of term	Matthias F. Cowley and Abraham O. Woodruff ordained^[2]

Abraham Hoagland Cannon (March 12, 1859 – July 19, 1896) (also reported as Abram H. Cannon), born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Cannon was the son of prominent Mormon leader and apostle George Q. Cannon and Elizabeth Hoagland, daughter of Abraham Hoagland. On October 9, 1882, Cannon was called to be a member of the First Council of the Seventy of the church. After having begun practicing plural marriage, he was convicted under the Edmunds Act of unlawful cohabitation in 1886 and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, which he served in full.

On 7 October 1889, Church President Wilford Woodruff called Cannon as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was ordained an apostle on that date by Joseph F. Smith. Cannon served in this capacity until his premature death at the age of 37 in Salt Lake City.

Grave marker of Abraham H. Cannon.

1 Published works
2 Notes
3 References
4 External resources

[edit] Published works

Cannon, Abraham H. (1886). Questions and answers on the Book of Mormon: Designed and prepared especially for the use of the Sunday schools in Zion. Juvenile Instructor. B00086IO4A.
Horne, Dennis B., ed. (2004). An Apostle’s Record: The Journals of Abraham H. Cannon. Gnolaum Books. ISBN 0-9746780-0-7.

[edit] Notes

^ Cannon, Marriner W. Merrill, and Anthon H. Lund were called as apostles at the same time to fill three vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
^ Cowley and Woodruff filled two vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve occasioned by Cannon's death and Moses Thatcher's removal from the Quorum.

[edit] References

Edwin Brown Firmage and R. Collin Mangrum (2001). Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press) ISBN 0252069803
B. Carmon Hardy (1992). Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press) ISBN 0252018338
"Swears Mormon Chiefs Broke Polygamy Pact; Apostle Cannon's Widow Tells of Plural Marriage in 1896", New York Times, 1904-12-15
Richard S. Van Wagoner (1992, 2d ed.). Mormon Polygamy: A History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books) ISBN 0941214796

[edit] External resources

Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Abraham H. Cannon

Preceded by Anthon H. Lund	Quorum of the Twelve Apostles October 7, 1889–July 19, 1896	Succeeded by Matthias F. Cowley

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