28 Oct 1872 – 19 Jul 1956
Grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn
Son of Jean Paul Cardon and Susannah Goudin
Cardon, Joseph Emanuel, Bishop of Logan First Ward, Cache county, Utah, is the son of John Paul Cardon and Susannah Goudin, and was born Oct. 28, 1872, in Logan, Cache county, Utah.
He was baptized Sept. 1, 1881, and on the same day confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dec. 25, 1889, he was ordained a Deacon and set apart as first counselor in said quorum. He was also appointed a teacher in the Logan Fourth Ward Sabbath school. Feb. 13, 1892, he was appointed president of the above named Deacon’s quorum, which position he held for several years, during which time he had charge of the Ward meeting house.
In the fall of 1889 he was appointed librarian in the Y. M. M. I. A., and held this and other positions in said association for a number of years. Jan. 8, 1894, he was ordained an Elder by Bishop Thomas X. Smith, but was still retained as president of the Deacon’s quorum.
He graduated from the district schools in 1889, and in the fall of the same year he entered the Brigham Young College, from which institution he graduated in 1894. During the time of attendance he held a number of important positions, among them that of president of the “Philomatic Library Society,” and also of the College Alumni Association during 1894-95.
He taught in the Logan City public schools (Woodruff building) during 1894-96. Aug. 1, 1895, he was appointed secretary of the Cache Stake Sunday schools.
Aug. 19, 1896, he was called to fill a mission to the Northern States, which call he immediately accepted, after resigning his position as teacher in the public schools and a number of business positions which he held.
Sept. 16, 1896, Elder Cardon married Miss Sophia Wilson, and on Oct. 4, 1896, he left home to go on his mission. Oct. 7, 1896, he was ordained a Seventy and set apart as a missionary. He was appointed to labor with Elder John H. Stout, to open up the field in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, and succeeded in organizing a branch of the Church. July 5, 1897, he was appointed president of the Northern Indiana conference, which position he held until Nov. 15th of the same year, when be was called by the president of the mission (Louis A. Kelsh) to act as secretary of the mission, with headquarters at Chicago. Ill. He acted in this capacity until April. 1899, when he was honorably released to return home.
During his mission, Elder Cardon assisted in holding twenty-five conferences in Indiana. Ohio, Michigan, Illinois. Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska. Upon his return home he was appointed to labor as a home missionary and assistant in the Logan [p.414] Fourth Ward Sunday school. He acted in the latter position until March, 1900, when he was called as an aid in the Cache Stake Sunday school board. He was also chosen a counselor in the Y. M. M. I. A. in 1899.
Jan. 12, 1900, he was set apart as one of the seven presidents of the 64th quorum of Seventy, which position he held until Feb. 8, 1901, when he was ordained a High Priest and Bishop of the Logan First Ward by Apostle Marriner W. Merrill, to succeed Benjamin M. Lewis, who had acted in the capacity of Bishop of said Ward for forty years.
Elder Cardon was appointed deputy city recorder during the summer of 1900. In September, of that year, he, together with Melvin J. Ballard, commenced manufacturing knit goods, and at the present time they have agents throughout Utah, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Wyoming, and give employment to about fifty persons.
-Extracted from LDS Biographical Encyclopedia
for 20 years, Joseph E. Cardon
died at age of 83
Well known Logan
Church and
Civic Leader Dies
Joseph E. Cardon, 83, prominent church, civic and business leader, died Thursday evening at Logan LDS hospital after a long illness.
He had been president of Cache stake for 20 years and was an LDS patriarch from 1913 until the time of his death. President Cardon was one of the original directors of Logan Home Building Society, and served in that office until his death.
Services Monday
Funeral services will be conducted Monday, 12 noon in Logan Fifth-18th ward chapel.
Friends may call at the Kenneth Lindquist Mortuary Sunday evening from 6 until 9, and Monday from 10 a.m. until time of services. Burial will be in Logan City cemetery.
Born Oct. 28, 1872, President Cardon was a son of Paul and Susannah Goudin Cardon, who were early pioneers of Utah.
A successful businessman, President Cardon, with the late Elder Melvin J. Ballard, founded Logan Knitting Factory in 1901. It expanded into a large institution and was sold when President Cardon went on his mission.
He also became a partner with Joseph Howell in founding a department store, and when he returned from Missouri, he became engaged in the real estate business and was instrumental in pioneering several commercial
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and residential areas in the Valley.
As a youth, he attended local schools and was graduated from Brigham Young College, being one of the first to receive his degree from that institution.
President Cardon was called to fill a mission in the Northern States in 1896. After completing the 2-1/2 years mission, he returned home and in a few months was sustained bishop of Logan First ward. After serving six years, he was released and appointed a counselor in Cache stake presidency, holding that position for several years.
In February 1913, he was ordained a patriarch by the late LDS President Heber J. Grant and was a patriarch longer than any other living patriarch of the church. A few months later, he was again called as a missionary, this time to Independence, Missouri, as editor of Liahona, the Elders Journal. In 1916, the Cardon family returned to their home in Logan.
19 1920, the large Cache Stake was divided into two stakes – Logan and Cache – and President Cardon was sustained president of the Cache stake. He served in this capacity for 20 years.
President Cardon was a former member of the board of trustees, Brigham Young College; was president of the stake board of education and chairman of the Logan Seminary board. He had taken a keen interest in political and civic affairs, having been a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912, and a member of the committee to officially notify President Wilson of his nomination.
He was a member of the state legislature in 1913, 1917, and 1919, and attended the special session of 1919, having served four sessions. He was chairman of the committee on appropriations for three sessions.
President Cardon was appointed a member of the important “This is the Place” Monument committee, and held his position as a chairman on the unit since its initial organization.
He has served as a member of the Cache Council of Defense, during World War I, was chairman of the home service department and war prison work, and has been active in Red Cross functions.
He was characterized as a man of high ideals and fine accomplishments.
On September 16, 1896, in the Logan LDS temple, he married Sarah Sophia Wilson. She passed away in 1948. He is survived by five children: Mrs. John H (Rula) Pitzer, Aptos, California; Bartell W. Cardon, Berkeley, California; Mrs. Harry K. (Karma) Woodward, Tooele; Mrs. Cecil B. (Sybil) Kenner and Mrs. Fred H. (Blanche) Thompson, Logan; 10 grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: Mary Merrill, Preston, Idaho; Sarah Turner, Washington, D. C.; Moses G. Cardon and Katie Jensen, Ogden, Utah; Ernest Cardon, Salt Lake City; Hyrum Cardon, Benson; and Violet Walker, Hollywood, Calif.
-Published in The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, July 20, 1956, Pages 1 and 7
Logan City Cemetery, Logan, Utah
