The Governor Cannon of Delaware here mentioned was William Cannon,
who was described on page 191 of Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American
Biography of the Nineteenth Century as:
CANNON, WILLIAM, state legislator, governor, was born in 1809, in Bridgeville,
Del. He was for some years in the state legislature of Delaware; and was state
treasurer and member of the peace congress of 1861. He was governor of Delaware
from 1864 to 1865. He died March 1, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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