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Show CITY ENGINEER IS CROUCH 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 City. Sylvester Q. Cannon, Can-non, city engineer and president of the Pioneer stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was named presiding bishop of the church to succeed Charles W. Nibley, who was recently elevated to the first presidency. pres-idency. The appointment was made by President Heber J. Grant and confirmed con-firmed by the members of the first presidency and the council of the twelve apostles. Mr. Cannon announced that the acceptance ac-ceptance of the position would necessitate neces-sitate his leaving the position of city engineer. He will take up his new duties immediately. The new presiding bishop comes from pioneer stock. He was born in Salt Lake City in June 10, 1877, the son of George Q. Cannon and Elizabeth Eli-zabeth Hoagland Cannon. They came across the plains and settled in Utah !n October, 1847, only a few months after the first sefclement. Mr. Cannon's boyhood was spent on the family farm just outside the city limits. He was educated at the L. D. S. university and attended the University of Utah in 1895. In 1S9G he entered the Massachusetts Institute Insti-tute of Technology at Boston. After completing a four-year course he graduated in 1S99, with a dergee of bachelor of science in mining engineering. engin-eering. During the summer of that year, he worked on a Canadian irrigation irri-gation colonization project and in the fall returned to Salt Lake. After a few months he was called on his first mission to the Netherlands Nether-lands and Belgium. After ten months mon-ths he was appointed to preside over the mission with headquarters at Rotterdam, Holland. After the completion com-pletion of three years he was selected select-ed to make a survey of the oriental missions of the church, in company with Francis M. Lyman, president of 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 counselor counsel-or of the first Pioneer stake organization. organi-zation. He married Winfred Saville of Salt Lake on June 15, 1904. in 1905, he was engaged with the state engineer in charge of - the hydro-graphic hydro-graphic and irrigation survey of the Weber river system. Mr. Cannon was called on his second sec-ond mission to Europe in 1907. He was placed in charge of the Belgium and Netherlands mission field and more especially assigned the task of publishing a translation of the Doctrine Doc-trine and Covenants in the Dutch Ian-guage. Ian-guage. On this trip he spent two years in the field and then - returned to Salt Lake to resume the practice of his profession. In the spring of 1912 Mr. Cannon first accepted a city position On that date he was chosen water supply engineer and in 1913, promoted to city engineer ,a position he holds at present. pre-sent. " As a record of his twelve years as city engineer, he points with pride to ; improvement of the city's water sup-ply. sup-ply. H |
