| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME time he was of voting age andUnited States Senator at 37 Frank Cannon was no ordinary man But he emerged from no ordinary background His father was George Cannon Hall of Fame publisher of the Deseret News confidant of Mormon church leader Brigham Young and five time Territorial Delegate to Congress His mother wasnot-far-removed relative of Abraham Lincoln He himself bore marked resemblance to Samuel Clemens the famed Jjournalist and author whose pen name was Mark Twain Itpossible much of Frank Cannonjournalistic ability was sown onbarren field for he spent many years in Ogden which in those days was acknowledged as the graveyard of Western journalism Nevertheless he gaveportion of himself to the newspaper which isdirect antecedent of todayOgden StandardExaminer and another to the predecessor of the Logan HeraldJournal And during his career he served as editorial writer or managing editor of three of the Westmajor newspapers - the San Francisco Chronicle the Rocky Mountain News of Denver and the Salt Lake Tribune For that matter his jour nalistic credits also included the Deseret News and the thenbustling but now forgotten Denver Times The Tribune perhaps summarized him best in an editorial eulogy at the time of his death Frank Cannon wasmilitant He made friends and he made foes but he ever sought to remain true to himself and his convictions In his death the West losesforceful character and an aggressive thinker Born January 25 1859 in Salt Lake City he was the eldest son of church and civic leader George Cannon He graduated from the University of Deseret now the University of Utah in 1878 working part-time while in school for the Juvenile Instructor publication his father had founded He also worked during college days asdeputy and read law with Franklin Richards then Weber County Clerk and Recorder Asresult he eventually became an attorney and intermittently practiced law during later life His first journalistic experience was with the Deseret News following college From there he moved to the Ogden 437 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
