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  About this time the Eatons completed a new, larger, passenger-carrying machine and Cannon started flying it at their field. The school continued through that summer; among the students was Dana DeHart who went on to become a well-known pioneer aviator and airmail pilot.
  Cannon remained with the Eatons at least through 1911. Later, he and his brother Walter began building another plane, as well as an engine for it. When this engine was stolen they gave up the project and retired from aviation activities.
  In World War I Cannon was commissioned as a Captain in the Engineer Corps of the United States Army. Later, he was employed by the Standard Oil Company and remained with them until he passed away on January 9, 1945, at age 62. He was survived by his wife and two sons, and buried in the National Military Cemetery at Sawtelle, California.
  Flying Pioneer Jack Cannon was one of the first of the early group of West Coast plane builders and pilots. Because of year-round ideal flying conditions, California rapidly became the cradle of aviation during the early development period. Cannon contributed a noteworthy part to this period. Self-taught, with planes he build himself, at a time when little information was available for their design and construction, he truly deserves great credit for the part he played in the early molding of American aviation history.

*Acknowledgement is given to Mr. Cannon's son John for his major contribution to the text and checking of this biography.

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