Abraham H. Cannon

LDSApostleshipinfo
English name = Abraham H. Cannon


birth_name=Abraham Hoagland Cannon
birth_date=birth date|1859|03|12
birthplace=Salt Lake City, Utah Territory
death_date=death date and age|1896|07|19|1859|03|12
deathplace=Salt Lake City, Utah
president_who_called=Wilford Woodruff
apostledate=death date and age|1889|10|07|1859|03|12
ordination_reason=Excommunication of Albert Carrington; death of John Taylor and reorganization of the First Presidency; death of Erastus Snow [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.]
end_date=death date and age|1896|07|19|1859|03|12
end_reason=Death
reorganization=Matthias F. Cowley and Abraham O. Woodruff ordained [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.]

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.

Published works

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

Notes

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

External resources

* [http://www.gapages.com/cannoah1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Abraham H. Cannon]