The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-10
Miss Susan Stone.
HENRY G1nBoN CANNON.

At a meeting OF the City Bar. held this
morning the following resolutions were
adopted:
Death has again invaded our ranks.
The senior member of our profession has
been called from among us to his last
home and we, his surviving associates,
meet together to render our affectonate
tribute to his memory, and to give voice
to our sense of personal loss.
Henry Gibbon Cannon was a native and
lifelong resident of this city. His aca-
demc education, begun and prosecuted
during his boyhood in her best schools,
was completed at the University of Vir-
ginia He was born November IS, 1880,
and came TO the bar in 1852. well equipped
by the attachments of faithful study and
with habits OF Industry and application,
which gave assurance of success. lie
soon won an enviabe reputation with the
courts and the juries, and attached to
himself valuable clients The outbreak
of the war in 1861 found him in the enjoy
ment of a remuneratiTe and increasing
practice. This, however, he cheerfully
abandoned when the peril of his State
summoned her sons to the camp, the
march and the battlefield. He promptly
enlisted in the Confederate army, in the
Wise Legion, and rendered arduous and
meritorous service with that command
outside his own State until, in 1853, he
was transferred TO Virginia. AS an 9th
Ger of the staff of General McCausland.
his sphere OF duty was chiefly in the
western part of the State, and in the
memorable Valley campaigns of General
Early he was engaged in the most trying
and peri'ous service, having his horse
killed under him upon one occasion, ana
on every field of duty winning the com
smendatiOn and confidence of his superior
officers and comrades by his gallant and
soldierly bearing.
After the war he resumed the practice
of his profession in Richmond, and con-
tnued its prosecution with eminent sue
cess and distinction until falling health
admonished him of the approach of his
end
Recognizing that the law is a jealous
mistress, Mr.. Cannon devoted himself to
the study and to the exactilg duties of
his professional life. with Il steadfast
fidelity which wthstood every tempta-
ton to court, political fame or position.
He never sought office. but office sought
him. and he yielded his personal prefer
ences so far as to serve his fellow-citizcns
of Richmond as a member of the Board of
Aldermen and chairman of its Finance
Committee, in which capacity he rendered
most valued and valuable service for
several years. With this exception, he
passed his long life in this community
simply as a lawyer, and few among the
honored ana eminent men who have adorn-
ed the bar Of Richmond enjoyed the con-
fidence and respect of his brethren and
feIlow-citizens to greater extent than
d:d he.
Our friend and brother has passed
from among us to swell the great ma
jority, wilo people the farther shore Of
that bourne whence no traeler returns
and whittier we are all so rapidly tending:
but he leaves behind him a grateful
memory, which will long survive this re-
cent sorrow.
To those OF his own stricken household,
the widow and the orphans, with whom
that memory is and will be held in the
holy keeping of a daily yearnfng for the
touch of banshed hand and the sound
of a voice that is STILL his surviving as
sociates of the bench and the bar tender
their mournful sympathes and assur-
ances of participation with them in their
grief and that memory.
Resolved, That a copy of this minute be
Forwarded to the family Of the deceased
and published in the city papers.