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the state senate, 1878-79. From 1879 tc 1892 he was a railroad president; was elected a represen- tative in the 48tli. 49th. 50th and 51st congresses as a Democrat. 1883-'91. and was secretary of the State of Georo;ia, 1894-'98. He was governor of Georgia, 1899-1903.

CANDLER, Warren A., educator, was born in Carroll county, Ga., Aug. 23, 1857; son of Sam- uel C. and Martha (Beall) Candler. He was graduated from Emory college, Oxford, Ga., in 1875. In the same year he was received on trial into the North Georgia conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal cliurch, south, and served on various circuits until 1881, when he was made presiding elder of the Dahlonega dis- trict. He subse- quently served as pastor of the church at Sparta, Ga., and the old church of St. John's at Augu.sta. He was appointed in July, 1886, as- sociate editor of the Christian Advo- cate, Nashville, the official organ of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and continued in that work until June. 1888, when he was elected to the presidency of Emory college. He was a member of the general conference of the church in 1886 and 1890, and a delegate to the ecumenical conference of 1891. He was elected bishop in 1898. Emory college gave him the degree D.D. in 1888, and LL.D., 1897. He is the author of "The Hi.story of Sunday Schools," and '• Christus Auctor" (1899).

CANFIELD, James iiulme, educator, was born at Delaware, Oliio, March 18, 1847; son of Eli Hawky and Martha (Hulme) Canfield. He was educated at the Brooklj-n collegiate and polytechnic institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., and at Williams college, Mass., where he was graduated in 1868. He was employed in railroad construc- tion in Iowa and Minnesota from 1868 to 1871; was admitted to the bar of Michigan in 1872; and practised law at St. Joseph, Mich., from 1872 to 1877, during three years of which time he served (gratuitously) as superintendent of public instruction. In 1877 he was made professor of histor\- and English literature at the State uni- versity of Kansas; later he held the cliair of his- tory and political science, and then that of American history and civics until 1891, when he

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became chancellor of the University of Ne- braska. He was president of the Kansas state teacliers' association, and of the same association in Nebraska; for four j-ears acted as secretary of the National educational association, and for one year as its president; was a member of the American economic association, and of the American historical association. He received the degree LL.D. from Williams, 1893: was president of the Ohio State university, 1895-'99, and libra- rian of Columbia university from 1899. He pub- lished The College Student and His Problems (1902).

CANNON, Frank Jenne, senator, was born at Salt Lake City. Utali, Jan. 35, 1859, son of George Q. and Sarah (Jenne) Cannon. He was graduated from the University of Utah in 1878 and became a printer and newspaper writer. He was a dele- gate to the Republican national convention at Minneapolis in 1892, was defeated for delegate to the 53d congress in 1892, was a delegate to the 54th congress in 1894 and was elected United States senator, serving from Jan. 22, 1896, to March 3, 1899.

CANNON, George Q., Mormon elder, was born in Liverpool, England, Jan. 11, 1827. He im- migrated to the United States with his parents, who were Mormons, and settled in Nauvoo, 111., where he was employed as a printer. He re- moved to Salt Lake city in 1847; was a mission- ary to the Sandwich Islands in 1850, became an apostle in 1859, and was a delegate to con- gress to ask that Utah be admitted as a state in 1862. He was president of the European mis- sion, 1862-64, which resulted in the sending of 13.000 converts to Zion; served as a member of the legislative council, 1865-66, and 1869-72, and was sent to congress again in 1872. to urge the admission of Utah as a state. He was a delegate to the 43d, 44th, 45th and 46th con- gresses, 1873-'81, was appointed first councillor to President John Taylor in 1880; served as re- gent of Deseret university and as editor of the Deseret News. He died at Monterey, Cal., April 12, 1901.

CANNON, Henry White, financier, was born in Delhi, Delaware county, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1850, son of George Bliss and Ann Eliza (White) Can- non. On his mother's side he is a direct descen- dant from Peregrine White of the Mayfloirer. He was educated at the Delaware literary institute, and was clerk and afterwards teller in the first national bank of Delhi. In 1870 he removed to St. Paul, Minn., as teller in the second national bank, and in 1871 he organized the Lmnberman's national bank at Stillwater, Minn. He remained cashier and acting president of that bank for thir- teen years and became prominertly identified with the banking interests of the state, visiting New