"The term "Mormon" is not a proper one to be applied to the Saints of God"

George Q. Cannon and religious nomenclature

George Q. Cannon was a prominent leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for much of the nineteenth century. The native of Liverpool, England, joined the church after his uncle, John Taylor, shared the religion with him and his family. Like thousands of others who emigrated to North America and settled in Nauvoo. Following the deaths o…