- Born: 12 March 1859 - Son of George Q. Cannon, Apostle
- Baptized: 12 March 1867 (age 8)
- Endowed: 7 July 1875 in the Endowment House (age 16)
- Married: 16 October 1878 (age 19) - Sarah Ann Jenkins
- Married: 15 October 1879 (age 20) - Wilhelmina (Mina) Mousley Cannon (a cousin)
- 3 weeks after his second marriage he was called on a 3 year mission to
Europe (first to Nottingham England and then to the Swiss German mission)
November 1879-1882
- Upon his return he was called and Sustained to First Council of Seventy
during the fall Conference, ordained 9th October 1882 (age 23)
- Served on Deseret Sunday School Union Board
- 5 September 1885 he had contracted typhoid fever which would last for two
months. Sarah and Mina had worked together over him night after night to
save his life.
- On 17 March 1886 he was sentenced and served six month term in prison for
Plural Marriage, Elder Snow was also incarcerated during this period with
A.H. Cannon and a number of others. And was later released 17 August 1886.
- Wrote the 'Book of Mormon Catechism' while in prison. (age 27)
- Published 'Book of Mormon Catechism' 1886 for use in Sunday Schools of Zion
- Married: 11 January 1887, Mary Eliza Young Croxall in Mexico. (age 31)
- 18 months after death of President John Taylor, whose death was brought
on by the persistent duress and stress of his being pursued for plural
marriage as President of the Church, at general conference of
April 1889, Wilford Woodruff sustained as president with George Q. Cannon and
Joseph F. Smith as counselors. The three vacancies in the Quorum of the
Twelve would be filled at the October conference with Marriner W. Merrill,
Anthon H. Lund and Abraham H. Cannon.
- He was 'solely' selected by Wilford Woodruff when he was called to be an
apostle of the Lord. He was ordained an Apostle of the Quorum of the Twelve
on 7 October 1889 by President Joseph F. Smith, then counselor to President
Woodruff. (age 30)
- His vacancy in the First Council of Seventy filled by Elder George Reynolds the
next April 1890 conference.
- Signed the Manifesto of the Presidency and Apostles dated 12 December 1889,
as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
- In October 1892 he and his brother John Q. Cannon took charge of the
"Deseret News" and also in that year he became the editor and publisher of the
"Contributor".
- Participated in conjunction with the First Presidency when the Genealogical
Society of Utah was organized effected in the Church Historian's Office 13
November, 1894.
- He Died 19 July 1896 in Salt Lake City, Utah (age 37) For some time previous
he had suffered with severe headache and in returning from a trip to
California he became seriously ill, underwent an operation for ear troubles.
General inflammation set in resulting in his death at his residence in
Salt Lake City.
- President Woodruff mourned his death intensely and later receive a
revelation concerning the fact that A.H. Cannon had been called to Serve
a Greater Mission in the Spirit World, that the work there had to progress
in correlation with the work here.
The 'Book of Mormon
Catechism' which Elder Abram (Abraham) Hoagland Cannon
prepared and published for use in the Deseret Sunday Schools of Zion
substantiate that it was the commonly held standard belief of the Church
that the Hill Cumorah in the state of New York was the same hill of Cumorah
in which Mormon had deposited all of the Nephite records in 385 B.C., that it
was the same hill of Cumorah in the side of which Moroni prepared his stone
box to house the breast plate, Urim and Thummim, the 'bow' in which they
rested and the Golden Plates of
the Book of Mormon, and that it was from that same hill of Cumorah that
Joseph Smith did retreive the Book of Mormon plates from in 1827 after having
annually visited the hill site since 1823 under the direction of the Angel
Moroni. (See the article on the Book of Mormon
Catechism)
Again, in short, the Church, its authorities and its publications have taught
and maintained that 'Cumorah Is Cumorah'!
