Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Cannon trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) graduating in 1918. He then joined the army and later returned to Utah to intern with the architectural firm Ware & Treganza and Cannon & Fetzer. Foreign a time, Cannon moved to Los Angeles and worked as the office manager of his Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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.
Cannon served on a church-appointed board of six architects that oversaw the construction of the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple.