Marion Cannon (October 30, 1834 – August 27, 1920) was a United States representative from California. He was born near Morgantown, Virginia (now in West Virginia) where he learned the blacksmith trade as a teenager and left home, carrying his blacksmith shop with him, from Mt. Morris, PA at the age of 18. He loaded his business onto a Conestoga wagon pulled by two oxen named Buck and Berry and, instead of trying to cross the Sierras, headed west on the Oregon trail with a party led by Kit Carson as the wagon train's scout. Their wagon train arrived in Salt Lake City in time to witness the laying of the foundation stone for the Mormon Temple.