Hillsborough-Volusia County FlArchives Biographies.....Cannon, Greene F. September 30, 1878 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. II  p189  1923

     CANNON, GREENE F., general manager of the Florida Nutex Brick Company of 
Tampa, is a native of this state, for many years had his business headquarters 
at Jacksonville, and as a merchant, manufacturer and a traveling salesman has 
an extensive acquaintance with business men and with business interests 
throughout Florida.
     Mr. CANNON was born at DeLand, Florida, September 30, 1878, son of JOHN 
W. and JOSEPHINE (FISKE) CANNON, both natives of Indiana.  His parents came to 
Florida in 1873 and located at DeLand, and they are now living at 
Jacksonville, where his father is connected with the Atlantic Coast Line 
Railway.  They have a family of two sons and one daughter:  GREENE F.; FRANK 
of Lenori, North Carolina; and MAY, wife of JOHN W. JAMISON of Tampa.
     GREENE F. CANNON spent his boyhood and early youth partly in Florida and 
partly in Indiana and attended the public schools of both states.  He was also 
a student in Stetson University at DeLand and DePauw University at Green 
Castle, Indiana.  His first important business experience was operating an 
electric and ice manufacturing plant at DeLand.  He was for two years loading 
clerk for the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway at Jacksonville, was 
with the S. F. and W. Railway as assistant yardmaster of Jacksonville about a 
year, for two years was head shipping clerk at Jacksonville for the Florida 
Grocery Company, and continued the same duties with its successor, the 
Consolidated Grocery Company.  Later he engaged in business for himself as a 
retail grocery and meat merchant on Bridge Street, now Broad Street, in 
Jacksonville.  On retiring from this he returned to the Baker and Holmes 
Company as head shipping clerk, and in 1905 he went on the road as a traveling 
salesman.  In 1915 he opened a branch at Tampa for Baker & Holmes Company, and 
in 1920 he and GEORGE BOOKER bought out the firm of Baker & Holmes, wholesale 
building material dealers.  January 1, 1922, he sold his interest to Mr. 
BOOKER and since February 1, 1922, has been manager of the Florida Nutex Brick 
and Tile Company, one of the important and prosperous industries of the state.
     Mr. CANNON is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, is 
a Rotarian and a member of the Country Club.  In 1906 he married ADA C. 
SLORAH, a native of Syracuse, New York.  They have one daughter, DAISY, now 
thirteen years of age.


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