Bio: |
Cannon, Dennis (History - 1846) |
contact: |
Pat |
Email: |
stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org |
Surnames: |
CANNON PAYNE |
----Source: Biographical History of Clark
and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin, published by The Lewis Publishing
Co, 1891 page 209.
Dennis Cannon
DENNIS CANNON, JR. is a native of the Emerald Isle, born June
14, 1846. Dennis CANNON, his father, came to America when he was
twelve years old, but returned to his native land and remained
there a number of years. He crossed the Atlantic again, bringing
with him a family of four children, and located in St. Andes, New
Brunswick. He afterward removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where he
was connnected with a gun powder factory. In 1855 he came West and
settled in Columbia County, Wisconsin, where he engaged in farming.
All of his nine sons and three daughters are living. He is a man of
good habits and is highly esteemed by all who know him.
The subject of this sketch received his education in the public
schools of Portage, Wisconsin, and at the early age of fifteen
years started out to look after his own interests. He worked on a
farm eleven months for one man, receiving seven dollars per month.
Afterward he was in the employ of the Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad
Company, for one year, firing extras. His next employment was in
the lumber business on the Wisconsin River, engaged in log driving
and running rafts of lumber from Jonny Bull to St. Louis, for nine
years, and during that time saved up a few hundred dollars. For
five years he was foreman of the work there, building the first dam
above Merrill on the Wisconsin River at Pilliken Rapids. He came to
Jackson County in 1873. Eight years he was employed as lumber
inspector and shipper for C. N. PAYNE Company, of Oshkosh,
Wisconsin from their mills at Merillon.
July 2, 1876, he married Emma LAKE, of Merillon. She was born in
1861, the daughter of New York parents. Her education was obtained
in the public schools of Jackson County. Their union has been
blessed with three children: two boys and one girl. Mr. CANNON
resides in a neat farm residence, two miles west of Merillon and
does business in town. He has served two years as one of the
Supervisors of the town of Alma. In his political views he is
independent.
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