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2 unusual facts about John K. Cannon


Camp Fremont

General John K. Cannon completed his initial military training at Camp Fremont.

John K. Cannon

He served the infantry at Camp Fremont, California; Camp Mills, New York, the Presidio of San Francisco; and Camp Furlong, New Mexico, until taking pilot training at Kelly Field, Texas in 1921-22.


3200 Phaethon

Simon F. Green and John K. Davies discovered it in images from October 11, 1983 while searching Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) data for moving objects.

Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Brigham Young, Jr. (9 December 1899—10 October 1901) : When Lorenzo Snow became President of the Church, the next senior Apostles, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith, were asked by Snow to be counselors in the First Presidency.

Amalgamated Sugar Company

Directors included David Eccles, Thomas Duncombe Dee, George Q. Cannon, and John R. Winder, with Eccles as president, and Dee as vice president.

Arbeiter Ring Publishing

Founded by Todd Scarth and John K. Samson in Winnipeg in 1996, the publishing company was originally based in The Old Market Autonomous Zone (or A-Zone), which also houses Mondragon Bookstore and Coffee House, and other radical and worker-run organizations.

George Cannon

George Q. Cannon (1827–1901), early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

George I. Cannon (1920–2009), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

George H. Cannon

While at the University of Michigan he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Georgious Y. Cannon

Georgious was the youngest of 32 children born March 6, 1892 to LDS church leader George Q. Cannon.

Gerry Healy

In 1953, Healy joined the split in the Fourth International instigated by James P. Cannon and was soon nominal leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

John Downes

John K. Downes, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, 1922–1927

John K. Beatty

"Mr. Beatty’s headlong execution on his superb set of pipes was as much of a surprise to Tarlach Mac Suibhne, the “Donegal Piper,” as was his lilting. After watching his acrobatic performance on the huge instrument for a time, McSweeney remarked quizzically: “Begor, Mr. Beatty, you have a great shower of fingers.”

John K. Downes

Born in Platt Bridge, Lancashire, England, he was educated at St. Mark’s College in London.

John K. Edmunds

Edmunds was called as patriarch of the Chicago Stake (since renamed the Wilmette Illinois Stake) as well as a member of the General Church Board charged with implementing the new Home Teaching program.

John K. Frost

The first area of the body to be studied in this way was the female genital tract, using the Pap smear invented by Georgios Papanikolaou.

John K. Gerhart

He returned to the United States in July 1957 to become the first deputy chief of staff, plans and programs, in Air Force Headquarters - the job he held until appointed by President John F. Kennedy to be commander-in-chief of the North American Air Defense Command, August 1, 1962.

During the period of his duty with the Air Force Comptroller, he also graduated from the Harvard Business School (AMP-13).

John K. Kane

Kane was active in founding Girard College and was involved in the appointment of the institution's first board of trustees.

He graduated from Yale College in 1814, studied law with Joseph Hopkinson, and was admitted to the bar on April 18, 1817.

John K. Luttrell

Luttrell was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1879).

John K. Roth

Later volumes include Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy (with Richard Rubenstein, 1987), Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (ed. with Michael Berenbaum, 1989) and Memory Offended: The Auschwitz Convent Controversy (ed. with Carol Rittner), 1991.

John K. Shields

He chaired the Committee on Canadian Relations in the 63rd and 64th Congresses, the Committee on Interoceanic Canals in the 65th Congress, and the Committee on the Sale of Meat Products in the 66th Congress.

John K. Waters

According to some sources the Third Army had received intelligence that Waters was indeed at the camp, having recently been moved there from Silesia.

John K.C. Ng

As a child, he used to hang around his father’s hardware shop in Quiapo.

John K'Eogh

He wrote Botanologia Universalis Hibernicaor, or a general Irish Herbal Cork, 1735, a herbal, or book about medicinal plants, written in Manx (not Irish but related), phonetic English, and Latin, Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica or, a Treatise on Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles or Insects known and propagated in this Kingdom, and Vindication of the Antiquities of Ireland Dublin, 1748, in which he gives an account of his family.

John Luttrell

John K. Luttrell (1831–1893), U.S. Representative from California.

John Ryerson

John K. Ryerson (1820–1890), merchant and politician from Nova Scotia

John W. Slayton

Slayton received over 9600 votes in the race, good enough for a third place finish, although well behind the 48,000 garnered by the winning candidate, Republican John K. Tener.

Joseph Cannon

Joseph J. Cannon (1877–1945), Utah politician, newspaper editor, and LDS Church leader

Joseph A. Cannon (born 1949), former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and former chairman of Geneva Steel

Karain semi-continent

When asked about this, he repeated geographer John K. Wright's opinion that the Atlantic was already "too crowded".

Lewis T. Cannon

Lewis was born to LDS church leader George Q. Cannon and Martha Telle Cannon on April 22, 1872.

Manitoba Provincial Road 222

The road is the inspiration for and namesake of singer-songwriter John K. Samson's 2010 EP Provincial Road 222, which consists of three songs set in geographic locations along the route.

Marlin K. Jensen

As a new Seventy in 1989, he was counselor to John K. Carmack, president of the Utah Central Area.

Philip Cannon

Philip L. Cannon (1850–1929), first Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

Philippe Cousteau

In the aftermath of aquanaut Berry L. Cannon's death while attempting to repair a leak in SEALAB III, Cousteau volunteered to dive down to SEALAB and help return it to the surface, although SEALAB was ultimately salvaged in a less hazardous way.

Reggie Leach

Leach is the topic in the John K. Samson song "Petition" which concerns the efforts of the citizens of Leach's hometown of Riverton, Manitoba to get him inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Reverse Underground Railroad

From 1811-1829, Martha "Patty" Cannon was the leader of a gang that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.

Richard O. Cowan

He also co-wrote a book about the international church with Donald Q. Cannon.

Richard P. Condie

Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, (Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, Richard O. Cowan, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, November 2000) ISBN 1-57345-822-8

T. C. Cannon

On May 8 of that year, however, he died in an automobile accident, and after a delay, the show opened on December 10, 1979 as "T.C. Cannon: A Memorial Exhibition." Featuring 50 works by Cannon, it subsequently became a traveling exhibition, and went on display at locations such as the Heard Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

The Duckberg Times

One of the founding editors of The Duckberg Times was John K. Snyder III, who would later pursue a successful career as a comic book and graphic novel illustrator.

Theodore H. White

White graduated from Harvard in 1938 summa cum laude (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was a classmate), with a degree in Chinese history and studies, the first student of John K. Fairbank.

Trains of Winnipeg

The short films were scored by Emily Goodden, Christine Fellows, Jason Tait and Steve Bates; additional contributors on the CD included John K. Samson and Leanne Zacharias, as well as an archival recording of Al Purdy.

Vaccine controversies

On December 1, 1911, he was appointed by Pennsylvania Governor John K. Tener to the Pennsylvania State Vaccination Commission, and subsequently authored a detailed report strongly opposing the Commission's conclusions.


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