| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Junction seven-year-old daily and one of the many longforgotten papers which once served the staterail center and succumbed to advertiser apathy and financial malnutrition At that time however the Junction was doing well and in 1879 it extended into Cache Valley delegating to the youthful Cannon the task of launching the Logan Leader It isneat and attractive sheet the articles are all bright crisp newsy and well-prepared commented Utah paper Mr Cannon contemporary is meeting with gratifying success Reads the book Early Utah Journalism by recognized Utah newspaper historian Cecil Alter Other state papers made friendly reference to and clipped freely from Mr Cannon Leader He left Logan afteryear though and moved to San Francisco But hemade an indelible imprint on the Leader forerunner of todayLogan Herald-Journal San Francisco had been the journalistic abode of George Cannon at an early stage of his life He founded and published there the weekly Western Standard Perhaps his son sought to follow in his footsteps during the 1880-82 era when he was an editorial writer for the Chronicle He returned to Utah to become secretary to John Caine the Territorial Delegate to Congress And when that term ended he resumed work as an aide to the Recorder In 1884 he was elected County Recorder The Recorderoffice proved butbrief detour from journalism When his term came to an end he joined the Ogden Herald another of that citydaily papers which would eventually vanish from the scene When that happened though Cannon recitedfuneral sermon for the Herald on December 31 1887 and presided the following morning at the birth of its successor the Ogden Standard name he selected to commemorate his fatherpublication in San Francisco His partner Edwin Little field is also enshrined in the Newspaper Hall of Fame Utahpolitics in those days were within the framework of the Peopleand the Liberal parties Cannon politically ini 438 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
