"In 1850, the Hawaiian nation was opened for missionary work, and among the first elders called to labor there was a young man named George Q. Cannon. He had been working in the California gold fields but accepted the call to serve in the island nation. Elder Cannon served as a missionary in Hawaii for four year--from 1850 through 1854--and found himself in the center of one of the most successful LDS missions of the nineteenth century. ..."
"George Q. Cannon was one of the original Mormon pioneers who came west after the assassination of Mormon founder Joseph Smith. After arriving in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in October 1847, he pursued the normal pioneer activities of farming, brickmaking, and building construction.
In October 1849, in the middle of the California Gold Rush, Cannon was one of a small group of men picked by Brigham Young to go to California and min ..."
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