OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CANNON CARLETON.) 



July 1, 1863. He commanded the 5th Corps at 

 the battle of Fredericksburg, and was chief of 

 staff in the Army of the Potomac at Chancellors- 

 ville and Gettysburg. He was wounded at Gettys- 

 burg. He joined the Army of the Cumberland in 

 October, 1863, and acted as chief of staff to Hook- 

 er at the battle of Lookout mountain. On the 

 march to Atlanta he commanded a division of the 

 20th Corps. He was bre vetted brigadier and 

 major-general, United States army, for meritori- 

 ous services. Congress voted a medal of honor 

 to him for conspicuous gallantry at the battle of 

 Gaines's Mill. After the war Gen. Butterfield 

 served as superintendent of the general recruiting 

 service of the army, with headquarters in New- 

 York. He was also in command of the forces in 

 New York harbor. In 1869 he resigned from the 

 army to become Assistant Treasurer of the United 

 States, in charge of the Sub-Treasury in New 

 York city. Upon retiring from public office he 

 devoted liis attention to business enterprises. He 

 took an active interest in politics and w r as an 

 earnest adherent of the Republican party. He 

 was a candidate for Congress in New York city 

 in 1892. In 1900 he drew up a bill for submission 

 to Congress for the organization of the United 

 States Reserves. He was appointed by Gov. 

 Roosevelt to attend a conference called by the 

 Governor of Florida to consider plans whereby 

 troops could be raised more speedily in time of 

 war. Gen. Butterfield's scheme called for the uni- 

 form organization and instruction of the militia 

 of the country. At the dedication of the National 

 Park at Gettysburg he was marshal of the 10,000 

 veterans who took part in the ceremonies. He 

 was one of the organizers and the grand marshal 

 of the centennial parade in 1889. He also had 

 military command of the funeral of Gen. William 

 T. Sherman. He was the author of a Treatise on 

 Camp and Outpost Duty. He established a course 

 of lectures in Union College. 



Cannon, George Q., Mormon apostle, born in 

 Liverpool, England, Jan. 11, 1827; died in Mon- 

 terey, Cal., April 12, 1901. His parents were rela- 

 tives of Apostle Taylor, of the Mormon Church, 

 and the child was reared in that faith. His early 

 boyhood was spent in the Isle of Man, and when 

 twelve years old he was taken by his parents to 

 Canada. Three years later they removed to 

 Nauvoo, 111., where young Cannon learned to be 

 a compositor, and became one of the most trusted 

 lieutenants of Brigham Young. In 1847 he fol- 

 lowed Young to Salt Lake City. Two years later 

 he was sent on a mission tour to California, and 

 thence to the Hawaiian Islands, where he trans- 

 lated the Book of Mormon into the native lan- 

 guage. He returned to Salt Lake City in 1854, 

 and in the following year was sent to San Fran- 

 cisco to publish a Mormon paper, The Western 

 Standard, and on the breaking out of the Mor- 

 mon war in 1857 he hurried back to assist in the 

 defense of Zion. In 1860 he was ordained an 

 apostle, and was sent to preside over the Mor- 

 mons in Europe. He was also in charge of the 

 emigration, and during his short mission sent 13,- 

 000 persons to Utah. On his return he became 

 Brigham Young's private secretary, and edited 

 The Deseret News. At this time he married two 

 wives in addition to the two he already had. In 

 1862, when Utah sought admission as a State, Mr. 

 Cannon and W. H. Hooper conveyed the petition 

 to Washington. From 1865 to 1873 he was a 

 member of the Legislative Council of the Terri- 

 tory, and in 1872 again appeared in Washington 

 to urge the admission of Utah. Failing in this, 

 he was elected Territorial Delegate in August, 

 1872, by an almost unanimous vote, and he con- 



tinued to represent Utah in Congress till 1881, 

 when he was forced to retire. During this time, 

 and for many years afterward, he was the target 

 for all the attacks upon Mormonism. But he re- 

 mained steadfast to his faith, and when compelled 

 to retire, he did so with a reiteration of his be- 

 lief in the divinity of the polygamous faith. After 

 the death of Brigham Young Mr. Cannon became 

 one of his executors, and when John Taylor was 

 elected president of the Mormon Church, in 1880, 

 Cannon was made first councilor; and from that 

 time he was the ruling spirit of the organization 

 in the defiance of the law r s of Congress. During 

 the critical period from 1882 to 1890 Mr. Cannon 

 spent many months in exile to avoid arrest. In 

 1886 he w T as taken into custody, and was released 

 on $45,000 bail, which he forfeited rather than 

 face the judge. After the admission of Utah as 

 a State he and his son, Frank Jenne Cannon, who 

 w r as United States Senator from Utah from 1896 

 to 1899, exerted a powerful political influence. 

 Mr. Cannon was ostensibly a Republican in poli- 

 tics, though in many instances he allied himself 

 with the Democrats. When in 1899 he became a 

 candidate for the United States Senate, the Re- 

 publican Governor of Utah would not appoint 

 him, on account of the doubtfulness of his party 

 loyalty. Lorenzo Snow, when succeeding to the 

 presidency of the Mormon Church as the oldest 

 of its apostles, retained Mr. Cannon in the first 

 presidency of the Church as one of his councilors. 

 Cannon was one of the principal factors, when 

 Mormonism saw the fallacy of its struggle against 

 the civil laws of the country, in separating it from 

 the state and making it a religion pure and sim- 

 ple. In addition to his duties as a priest and a 

 politician, Mr. Cannon was a miner, a merchant, 

 a real-estate owner, a banker, a railroad pro- 

 prietor, a manufacturer, a farmer, a publisher, an 

 editor, a cattle-raiser, and a business promoter. 

 The estimates of his income from his various in- 

 terests were as various as they were enormous. 



Carleton, George Washington, publisher, 

 born in New York city, Jan. 16, 1832; died in 

 Saratoga, N. Y., Oct. 11, 1901. He was educated 

 at St. Thomas Hall, Flushing, N. Y., and began 

 his business career as a clerk in the importing 

 and commission house of Burnham, Plumb & 

 Co., in New York city. While employed here he 

 utilized his leisure moments in designing illustra- 

 tions for the comic papers: The Lantern, edited 

 by John Brougham, the actor; The Picayune, 

 edited by Charles E. Wilbour; and Young Amer- 

 ica, edited by T. W. Strong. In this amateur 

 work he showed talent for humorous sketching 

 with pen and ink, and from it he received an en- 

 couraging income. Some of his designs attracted 

 the attention of George Merriam, who asked him 

 to design for his firm an appropriate illustration 

 for a heading to an advertisement of Webster's 

 Dictionary. The sketch accepted, and used for 

 nearly half a century by its purchaser, was of 

 two small cupids overweighted with a very large 

 book, and Mr. Carleton's remuneration for it was 

 a copy of the dictionary bound in calf. In 1857 

 Mr. Carleton opened a book-shop at 413 Broad- 

 way, corner of Lispenard Street, with Edward P. 

 Rudd and his father, the Rev. George R. Rudd, as 

 partners, under the firm name of Rudd & Carle- 

 ton. Among the first publications of the new 

 firm was William Allen Butler's poem, Nothing 

 to Wear, which, though published in a year of 

 panic and failure, at once attained immense popu- 

 larity. Mr. Carleton began to design the illus- 

 trations for this poem, but finally put the work 

 into the hands of his friend, Augustus Hoppin, 

 who made the drawings on wood. The curious 



