Georgius Y. Cannon, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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architect
Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1892
Date of Death: 29-Mar-1987
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Georgius Y. Cannon
- Georgius Young Cannon (March 6, 1892 – March 29, 1987) was a 20th-century architect in the American West who operated principally out of Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Cannon trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating in 1918.
- He then joined the army and later returned to Utah to intern with the architectural firm Ware & Treganza and Cannon & Fetzer.
- He served two missions to Germany for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).For a time, Cannon moved to Los Angeles and worked as the office manager of his MIT schoolmate Wallace Neff.
- He later returned to Utah and designed numerous buildings, mostly residences, and some of which remain on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Among his works were meetinghouses of the LDS Church and other civic buildings.
- Cannon served on a church-appointed board of six architects that oversaw the construction of the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple.
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