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Show 18 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER Improvement Association in 1891, and served for forty years. She served as deputy county recorder, 1896 to 1902, and was twice a delegate to the triennial sessions of the National Council of Women in Washington D.C., She wrote many lesson manu als and articles for LDS Church publications, and was editor of the Young Woman's Journal, 1902-1907. She stitched needle point, made pottery, and helped organize Salt Lake's Art Barn and the University of Utah Emeritus Club. She enjoyed travel and in 1926 joined Lucy Van Cott, dean of women at the University of Utah in a voyage to Europe. While there she visit ed the Isle of Man, the homeland of her Cannon ancestors, and thrilled Madelyn with her accounts. She showered love and affection on Madelyn and her other nieces and nephews. Her home, whether with her parents, Madelyn's parents, Madelyn's, or her own, was welcoming, filled with lovely flowers and a choice selection of books and pictures. She was the one who introduced Madelyn to books by Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, Dickens, John Stuart Mill, and other classic authors. Aunt Annie also provided copies of the novels of Jane Austen, George Eliot, and, above all, Alcott's Little Women. She had books by American poets-William Cullen Bryant, Henry W. Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. She also loaned for Madelyn's eager perusal copies of Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, and Atlantic Monthly. She told personal stories about such matinee idols as Maude Adams (a Salt Lake City girl), Otis Skinner, and Chauncey Olcott (who wrote and sang "My Wild Irish Rose"); and "the royal families of the Drews and Barrymores." There were also complete sets of all the Mormon books, magazines, and" discourses." She was a friend of John Hafen, George Ottinger, John Fairbanks, and other Utah artists, and she relayed plenty of gossip about leading Mormons-men and women-always tasteful but nev ertheless interesting. Aunt Annie was a person of admirable self-control, quiet humor, and clear intellect. Madelyn loved her and tried to become very much like her. Ann Cannon died in the Silver home on November 9, 1948, age seventy-nine. She had maintained an 12 active business life until age seventy-five. |
