From the Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin, published by The Lewis Publishing Co, 1891 page 209.
 

Dennis Cannon

DENNIS CANNON, JR. is a native of the Emerald Isle, born June 14, 1846. Dennis CANNON, his father, came to America when he was twelve years old, but returned to his native land and remained there a number of years. He crossed the Atlantic again, bringing with him a family of four children, and located in St. Andes, New Brunswick. He afterward removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where he was connnected with a gun powder factory. In 1855 he came West and settled in Columbia County, Wisconsin, where he engaged in farming. All of his nine sons and three daughters are living. He is a man of good habits and is highly esteemed by all who know him.

The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Portage, Wisconsin, and at the early age of fifteen years started out to look after his own interests. He worked on a farm eleven months for one man, receiving seven dollars per month. Afterward he was in the employ of the Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad Company, for one year, firing extras. His next employment was in the lumber business on the Wisconsin River, engaged in log driving and running rafts of lumber from Jonny Bull to St. Louis, for nine years, and during that time saved up a few hundred dollars. For five years he was foreman of the work there, building the first dam above Merrill on the Wisconsin River at Pilliken Rapids. He came to Jackson County in 1873. Eight years he was employed as lumber inspector and shipper for C. N. PAYNE Company, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin from their mills at Merillon.

July 2, 1876, he married Emma LAKE, of Merillon. She was born in 1861, the daughter of New York parents. Her education was obtained in the public schools of Jackson County. Their union has been blessed with three children: two boys and one girl. Mr. CANNON resides in a neat farm residence, two miles west of Merillon and does business in town. He has served two years as one of the Supervisors of the town of Alma. In his political views he is independent.