Elizabeth Anne Wells Cannon

Elizabeth Ann "Annie" Wells was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on December 7, 1859, the daughter of General Daniel Hammer Wells (1814-1891) and Emmeline Blanche Woodward (1828-1921). She had 29 siblings. [1] [2] [3]

She attended the Deseret University. [3]

Elizabeth Wells Cannon worked for fifteen years as a reporter and assistant editor for the Woman's Exponent, a Utah Suffrage paper published and edited by her mother Emmeline B. Wells, and she contributed verse and prose to various magazines and newspapers. [4] [2]

She was a member of House of Representatives, an author of measures for social welfare and art. [2]

She was the director of the Library Board. [2]

She was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Relief Association, national historian and twice state president of the Service Star Legion, and honorary member for Utah for the National Woman's Relief Society. In 1883 she wrote The History and Objectives of the Relief Society and co-authored the Relief Society Handbook. She was chosen by Herbert Hoover to be Utah's chairman for the European Relief Drive. [2] [3]

In 1918 she was associate vice-president of the American Flag Association. [3]

She was a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, the American Woman's Association, the Utah Woman's Press Club, the Order of Bookfellows. [2]

Elizabeth Wells Cannon on the cover of the Relief Society, 1939

In 1879 Elizabeth Wells married Col. John Quayle Cannon (1857-1931). They had twelve children, eleven living and three sons joined the World War I: Louise Blanche Andrew (1884-1967), Margaret Clayton (1886-1977), Daniel Hoagland Cannon (1889-1954), Eleanor Addy Cannon (1891-1892), Emmeline Martineau (1893-1972), Cavendish Wells Cannon (1895-1962), Katherine McKay (1897-1947), David Woodward Cannon (1899-1973), Abraham Hoagland Cannon (1899-1992), John Quayle Cannon (1901-1980), Theodore Lincoln Cannon (1904-1966).[1][2][3]

She lived at 1354 S. 9th West, Salt Lake City, Utah.[2]

She died in Salt Lake City, Utah of Hodgkin's lymphoma and is buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City.[1]

• "Zina Young Card". Relief Society Magazine. 18 (4): 202–204. April 1931.[2]

• The Annie Wells Cannon Papers at the University of Utah
• Annie Wells Cannon journals, Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, L. Tom Perry Special Collections
• Emmeline B. Wells and Annie Wells Cannon papers, Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, L. Tom Perry Special Collections