[3] Cahoon was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by Parley P. Pratt on October 11, 1830.

[3] While living in Kirtland, Ohio, he was appointed a member of the committee to oversee the construction of the first Latter Day Saint temple.

[2] When the Mormon Extermination Order forced the Latter Day Saints to leave Missouri,[3] Cahoon fled to Iowa Territory before settling in Nauvoo, Illinois.

[4] On March 11, 1844, Cahoon was appointed to the Council of Fifty,[2] a church organization of a secular nature that sought to "obtain redress for the Missouri persecutions and to find a safe haven where the saints could move.

[3] He later practiced plural marriage, marrying Lucina Roberts in 1843 and Mary Hildrath in 1846 while living in Nauvoo, Illinois.

[1] In 1846, Cahoon and his wives Thurza Stiles and Lucina Roberts moved to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, with their children.

[3] In an announcement of his death, the Deseret News called him "a cheerful partaker in all their [the Latter Day Saints'] tribulations, privations and persecutions; an active member; a faithful servant".