Lewis T. Cannon
Lewis Telle Cannon was an architect who designed buildings in Utah and the intermountain west.
Cannon was a son of George Q. Cannon and Martha Telle Cannon. He was born on April 22, 1872, in Salt Lake City. He trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and after his return to Utah he was in a firm first with Ramm Hansen and then with John Fetzer. Cannon & Fetzer produced residences, meetinghouses, and civic buildings until 1937, some of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He was also with the firm Cannon & Mullen. He was also a professor of mathematics in the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University) in Logan for two years.
Cannon married Martha M. Howell on 12 June 1901 in Salt Lake City. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was ordained an elder by his father and elder by Wilford Woodruff on 6 September 1892. He served on the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association general board for more than 30 years. He also served a full-time mission in Germany and Switzerland.
Cannon died 10 October 1946 in Salt Lake City. His son Howell Quayle Cannon was also an architect.
