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Converse, Joel Newton
physician, railroad builder, was born Dec. 13, 1820, in Madison county, Ohio. In 1864 he began the building of the road from Union City to Logansport, Ind., which was completed in 1865. Of this line he was president and general superintendent until he resigned in 1870. He began the contract of building the Midland Pacific railway, extending from Nebraska City via Lincoln to some point on the Union Pacific.
Converse, Julius
governor, was born in 1799 in Stafford, Conn. He was governor of Vermont from 1872 to 1874.
He died Aug. 18, 1885.
Conway, Elias N
governor. He was governor of Arkansas for eight years from 1860 to 1868.
Conway, Henry W
congressman, was born in Greene county, Tenn. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Arkansas from 1823 to 1829.
Conway, James S
governor. He was governor of Arkansas from 1836 to 1840, having been the first elected under the state constitution.
Conway, Martin F
printer, lawyer, congressman, was born about 1803 in Charleston, S. C. He took part in originating the National Typographical union. He was elected to the council of the first territorial legislature; under the Topeka convention was chosen chief justice of the supreme court; and in 1856 was president of the Leavenworth constitutional convention. In 1859 he was elected a representative from Kansas to the thirtyseventh congress. He died Feb. 17, 1882.
Conway, Thomas
soldier, was born Feb. 27, 1733, in Ireland. He was a brigadier-general in the revolutionary war. He was obnoxious to Washington, and out of Conway's anger against Washington grew the Conway cabal.
Conwell, Russell H
clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in Massachusetts. He is a baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, and the author of Why the Chinese Emigrate; Woman and the Law; Life of President Hayes; Life of Bayard Taylor; Life of President Garfield; and Joshua Giavencola, the Captain of the Vineyards of Lucerna.
Cony, Samuel
state legislator, jurist, governor, was born Feb. 27, 1811, in Augusta, Maine. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1835 and 1862; member of the council in 1839; and judge of probate from 1840 to 1847. He was state treasurer from 1850 to 1855; mayor of Augusta in 1854, and governor of Maine from 1864 to 1867. He died Sept. 5, 1870, in Augusta, Maine.
Conyngham, David Power
journalist, author, was born in 1840 in Ireland. He was a New York journalist, and editor of The Tablet, and the author of Sherman's March Through the South; Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs; The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns.
In fiction: Sarsfield, or the Last Great Struggle for Ireland; The O'Donnells of Glen Cottage; O'Mahoney, Chief of the Commeraghs; and Rose Parnell, the Flower of Avondale. He died in 1883.
Conyngham, John Butler
soldier, was born in 1827. While a prisoner at Charleston he was one of the number selected as hostages to be shot in case of a bombardment of the city by our forces.
In 1871 he was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for gallant service in the field. During his term of service in the regular army he was mostly employed on the Indian frontier. He died May 27, 1871, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Cook, Burton C
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 11, 1819, in Monroe county, N. Y. He was elected state's attorney for the ninth circuit in 1846, for two years, and was re-elected, in 1848, for four years. He was a member of the state senate from 1852 to 1860, and in 1864 was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a union republican.