Conant, Edward
educator, author, was born May 10, 1839, in Pomfret, Vt.
His educational work began in 1861 and continued for fourteen years, and became state superintendent for Vermont. He is the author of The Drill Book in the Elements of the English Language; and Conant's Vermont.
CONANT, MRS. HANNAH O'BRIEN, author, was born in 1809 in Danvers, Mass. She was an oriental scholar who assisted her husband in his literary work, made important translations from the German of Strauss, Neander, and Uhden, and was the author of History of the English Bible; Popular History of English Bible Translation; and The Earnest Man, a sketch of Judson, the missionary. She died Feb. 18, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y.