1894 Birth:930,1900 Birth date of August 1894 taken from 1900 census enumeration. Birth place of Chicago assumed because parents George J. Cannady and Mary Ryder were married there in 1892 and resided there at the time of the 1900 census enumeration. There is no indication the family left the Chicago area.

1900 U.S. Census:930 George C. enumerated in the household of his father George J. Cannady at 5714 Lowe Street in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois as a son, white, male, Aug. 1894, age 5, single, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Illinois.

1910 U.S. Census:949 Chester enumerated in the household of his father George J. Cannady at 722 Thirty-fifth Street in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois as a son, male, white, 15, single, born in Illinois, father born in Indiana, mother born in Illinois, can speak English, druggist clerk, drug store, worker, employed all year, can read and write, did not attend school within the year. Also residing in the household were mother Mary Ryder and siblings Helen, William, Ruth, Walter, and George Jr. as well as maternal grandfather Andrew Ryder.