Abraham H. Cannon

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

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

• 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. 

Sources

• 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

• Grampa Bill's General Authority Pages