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Conrad, Henry Clay

lawyer, was born April 25, 1852, in Bridesberg, Pa. He was elected president of the city council of Wilmington in 1882; and for ten years from 1880 acted as United States chief supervisor of elections of the district of Delaware.

Conrad, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1815.

Conrad, Joseph Speed

soldier, was born Aug. 23, 1833, in Ithaca, N. Y.

He received three brevets, as major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of volunteers.

Conrad, Timothy Abbott

conchologist, author, was born in August, 1803, in New Jersey. He was a conchologist who published Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America; New Fresh-Water Shells of the United States; Miocene Shells of the United States; and Palæontology of State of New York. He died Aug. 9, 1877, in Trenton, N. J.

Conrad, William

clergyman, was born Aug. 11, 1808, in Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of Westmoreland college, Mount Pleasant, Pa., to which he presented his large collection of geological specimens, was a frequent contributor to religious journals, and published a volume on Baptism. He died Feb. 16, 1865.

Conrad, William George

banker, was born Aug. 3, 1848, in Clarke county, Va. He is principal owner and president of the Connell Coal company, of Scranton.

In 1872 he founded the Third National bank of Scranton.

Contemo, Ottavio D

soldier, musician, was born Sept. 29, 1835, in France .

During the civil war he was a captain in the volunteer army of the United States. He has been a bandmaster in the United States army, and a custom house officer at Wilmington, Cal. He is major of the first regiment Union Battlefield Veterans' association of San Jose, Cal. , where he is a music teacher and bandmaster of the fifth regiment band.

Converse, Amasa

clergyman, journalist, was born in 1795 in Virginia . He founded the Christian Observer, a presbyterian weekly organ of old-school doctrine and southern political sympathies.

When the civil war began he removed his paper to Richmond, Va., and after the war to Louisville, Ky., where it continit continued to be the organ and exponent of the southern presbyterian church. He died Dec. 9, 1872, in Louisville, Ky.

Converse, Charles Crozat

musical composer, was born in 1834, in Warin Warren, Mass. His musical compositions have appeared under the anagrammatic pen-names C. O. Nevers, Karl Reden , and E. C. Revons. He has published a canpublished a cantata; New Method for the Guitar; Musi- ; Musical Bouquet; The One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Psalm; Sweet Singer; Church : Church Singer; and Sayings of Sages.

Converse, Elisha

manufacturer, was born July 28, 1820, in Boston, Mass .

He is considered by those who know him the best financier in the state of Montana. He was the first mayor of Fort Benton and territorial senator.

Converse, George L

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 4, 1827, in Georgesville, Ohio. He was a member of the state house of representatives from 1860 to 1863; state senator in 1864 and 1865; again in the lower house of the legislature from 1873 to 1876, serving as speaker in 1873 and 1874; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses.

Converse, Mrs. Harriet

author, poet, was born in 1846 in Elmira, N. Y.

She is a writer of poetry and prose in New York city, and the author of Sheaves, a collection of verses; The Religious Festivals of the Iroquois Indians; and Mythology and Folk-Lore of the North American Indian.