Show G IS mm ENG INEER is ISI I CHURCH OFFICER SYLVESTER G CANNON NAMED BY PRESIDENT GRANT AS PRESIDING BISHOP Served City of Salt Lake for Twelve Years As Official Will Resign As City Engineer At Once Salt Lake Sylvester City City Sylvester Q Can Can- Cannon Cannon non cit city engineer and president of the Pioneer stake slake of the tir Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints was named presiding bishop of ot the church to succeed Charles W V NIble Nibley who was recently elevated to the fIrst drat pres pres- pres presidency presidency The appointment was made mado h by President Heber J Grant and con con- confirmed confirmed confirmed firmed by the tho members of the first presidency and the council of the twelve apostles Mr 11 Cannon announced that the ac- ac acceptance ac DC acceptance of the position would necessitate necessitate necessitate his leaving the position of city en engineer Ineer He lie will take up his new duties Imme Immediately The new presiding bishop comes from pioneer stock He lie was horn born In Salt Lake City in June 10 1877 the son of George Q Cannon and Eli Eli- Elizabeth Elizabeth Eli Elizabeth zabeth Hoagland Cannon They came across tho the plains and settled in Utah in October 1847 1147 only a n few months after aCter the first settlement Mr 11 Cannons Cannon's boyhood was waa spent on the family farm just outside the city limits He was educated at the theL theL tirL L D S university and attended l the University of Utah In 1895 1595 In 1896 1596 he entered the Massachusetts Institute Institute Institute tute of Technology y at Boston After ACter completing a year four course he graduated in 1899 1599 with a of bachelor o of science in mining engin engin- engineering engineering During the summer of that year ear he worked on a Canadian irrigation Irrigation Irrigation gation colonization project and In the tall fall returned to Salt Lake After ACter a few Cew months he was called on his first mission to the Nether Nether- Netherlands Netherlands lands and Belgium After ACter ten mon mon- months mon mon- months months he lie was appointed to preside over the mission with headquarters at Rotterdam Holland After ACter the tir com com- comI completion completion of oC three years he tr was select select- selected selected I ed ail to make a survey of ot the oriental missions of the church in company with Francis M 1 Lyman president or of orthe the European mission On that trip he Visited China Turkey Greece Italy Palestine and other countries On his return to Salt Lake Mr Cannon was appointed first counsel counsel- counselor or of the first Pioneer stake organization organization organization He lie married Winfred Saville of Salt Lake on June 15 1904 In 1905 he was engaged with the tir state engineer in charge of the hydro hydro- hydrographic hydrographic hydro graphic graphic and irrigation survey suney of the Weber river system Mr MIr Cannon was called on his sec second ond and mission to Europe in 1907 lIe He H was placed in charge of the and Netherlands mission field antI and antImore more especially assigned the task of publishing a translation of the Doc Doc- Doctrine Doctrine Doctrine trine and Covenants in the Dutch lan lan- language language language guage On this trip he spent two tv years ears in the field and then returned to Salt Lake to resume the practice of oC his profession In the spring o of 1912 Mr tr Cannon first accepted a city position On that date he was chosen water supply engineer and in 1913 promoted to elt city engineer a position he lie holds at pre pre- pre pre- present present sent t As a record of his twelve years ears as city engineer he points with pride to Improvement of the tho city's water sup sup- supply supply pI ply It Is pointed out that that sup sup- supply supply supply ply has doubled under snider his adminis adminis- administration administration ovation that all the storage and equalization reservoirs have been designed and built under his direction direction tion that the lie paving and antI guttering during the past twelve years totals more than in the previous history of the tho city and that the total extent ot of sewers sowers laid in that period doubles the mileage laid laM previous to that time The sewer system has been vastly astl Improved in the way of out out- sail outfall fall Call sewers and pumping plants |