The bride given in marriage by her father, wore a beige wool frock, a purple felt hat and a corsage of orchids. In her shoe was a sixpence for "something borrowed" and for "something old and something blue" she wore a diamond and sapphire pendant which her mother had worn at her wedding.
Miss Marjorie Higgins, as the brides only attendant, wore a green wool frock with matching hat and a corsage of fall flowers.
Naval Cadet William Phillips was the best man, and the ushers were Lieutenant Judson Suddarth and Clifford D. Brundage.
Following the ceremony there was a small reception in the University Club. Daniel and Ann made their home temporarily in Pocatello, Idaho where he was stationed for a short time during World War II. He never went into battle, but instead became part of Army Air Force flight training and legal services team.
After the war, Daniel Cannon of English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh ancestry became the fifth generation to work in the coal industry, initially as an attorney for Frick Coke Co. in 1948 in Pittsburgh and then was hired by Harry M. Moses to be secretary and general counsel of the newly formed Bituminous Coal Operators' Association during which time he negotiated a contract with the John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers who earned the intellectual admiration of Cannon, the top graduate from the University of Pittsburgh Law School in 1947.
His Welsh ancestry came through the Evans family of coal miners. Daniel Cannon's great-great-grandfather, was a coal mine operator in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England in the 1800s, when coal operators donned high silk hats and used a brush to clean off the dust which became a family heirloom. John Hawkin's son, John, began coal mining at age 12 as a buddy collier (a contract miner who organized a miner group to dig a contracted amount of coal for the operator). He eventually emigrated to the United States and worked in mines.
Daniel's grandfather on his mother's side, John Burke, also came to America and worked in mines, settling in Gratztown on the Youghiogheny River, southeast of Pittsburgh. He eventually worked at the Port Royal Mine, Port Royal, until shortly before the June 10, 1901 mine explosion that killed 19 men. He went on to live to age 93 and is buried in West Newton along with other Port Royal miners. Daniel's paternal grandfather, Lycurgus L. Cannon, moved from Duquesne to Donora, Pennsylvania and got a job as a pipefitter at the new American Steel and Wire plant. He had previously been a telegrapher for the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, reporting shipments of coal. L.L.'s son Edgar Carl Cannon, a Registered Professional Engineer, worked in the steel mill and became superintendent of the yard department. Daniel Cannon worked in the mill as a teenager growing up in Donora, near future baseball star Stan Musial.
Ann Marshall Price grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from Carnegie Tech as a drama and English major. Her mother, Mazie Price married cousin Obed Price who moved to Pittsburgh from the midwest following recovery from a mosquito-borne disease he acquired in Jacksonville, Florida during service in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish American War. Obed became an attorney for Pittsburgh Coal, a division of US Steel.
In 1949, Dan and Ann moved their children to Manassas, Virginia and eventually a larger home in Fairfax. In 1956, Dan was appointed acting executive director of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association upon the sudden death of Harry Moses on April 1st. In 1958, he left the BCOA joined the National Association of Manufacturers and the seven Cannons moved to Montclair, New Jersey where they remained until the NAM moved its headquarters from New York City to Washington, DC in 1974 and they took up residence near the Capitol where he frequently appeared giving testimony before Congress as the NAM's environmental lobbyist. Ann Cannon distinguished herself as a drama teacher in Cedar Grove, New Jersey and as a genealogist in Washington, DC as well as the visionary of a home restoration that eventually was a highlight of the Victorian Society Home tour.
Photo: Lt. Daniel Willard Cannon and Ann Marshall Price at The Cave 1943
