Barton Hepburn, another former Comptroller of the Currency. Cannon remained chairman of the board until February 1911, retaining his directorship around 1933. Cannon also served as a director of the Great Northern Railroad, the Lake Erie and Western Railroad, the New York, Ontario and Western Railway, and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. He also served as president of the Pacific Coast Company and was a director of the Manhattan Trust Company and the United States Guarantee Company. Society life In 1892, Cannon and his wife were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom. Cannon was also a member of the Union League Club, the Century Club, the Players Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Tuxedo Club, the New York Yacht Club, the National Arts Club, the Railroad Club of New York and the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. In 1899, he received and honorary degree from Dartmouth College. Cannon had also been a member of the Peary Arctic Club; Cape Cannon in Greenland was named after him by Robert Peary. In 1915, Cannon donated Alessandro Longhi's Portrait of Count Carlo Aurelio Widman, the grandnephew of Pope Clement XIII, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Personal life On November 20, 1879, Cannon was married to Jennie Olive Curtis (1851–1929), the daughter of Gold Tompkins Curtis (1821–1862) and relation of John Jay Knox, in Washington, D.C. Her father was a prominent attorney who gave up his practice during the U.S. Civil War to raise a company, the 5th Minnesota Volunteers to fight, dying in 1862 during his service. Together, they were the parents of: George Curtis Cannon (b. 1882) Henry White Cannon Jr. (b. 1887) His wife, known for her forceful and talented speaking skills, was a prominent suffragist who advocated for the right to vote for women, and in 1915 was the Delaware County Suffrage Leader, providing the club with its headquarters. Jennie later served as the vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In September 1930, Cannon, then an eighty-year-old widower, married Myrta L. Jones of Cleveland. Cannon died on April 27, 1934 in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was buried in Delhi, New York. His estate was left to his widow and sons in one-third shares after