Conger, Edwin Hurd – Conn, Charles Gerard
Conger, Edwin Hurd
soldier, lawyer, diplomat, congressman, was born March 7, 1843, in Knox county, Ill. He enlisted in 1862 as a private in company I, one hundred and second Illinois volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war, attaining the rank of captain, and receiving from the president the brevet of major for gallant and meritorious conduct in the field. He was elected treasurer of Dallas county in 1877 and re-elected in 1879; was elected state treasurer of Iowa in 1880 and reelected in 1882. He was elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican. He was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Brazil, 1890-93; presidential elector at large, Iowa, 1896; and minister to Brazil, 1897.
Conger, Harmon S
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1847 to 1851.
Conger, James L
farmer, congressman, was born in New Jersey. He settled in Belvidere, Mich., as early as 1836; was a successful farmer, and a brilliant writer. He was elected a representative in congress from 1851 to 1853.
Conger, John W
educator, college president, was born Feb. 20, 1857, in Jackson, Tenn. He has been president of the Odd Fellows' college of Humboldt, Tenn.; president of Searcy college of Arkansas; and is now the president of the Ouachita Baptist college of Arkadelphia, Ark.
Conger, Omar Dwight
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born in 1818 in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was engaged in the geological survey of the Lake Superior iron and copper region from 1845 till 1847, and in 1848 became a lawyer in Port Huron, Mich. He was elected judge of the St. Clair county court in 1850, and was a state senator from 1855 till 1861, being president pro tempore of the senate in 1859. He was a presidential elector on the republican ticket in 1864, a member of the state constitutional convention in 1866, and a member of congress from 1869 till 1881, when he was chosen to the United States senate.
Conklin, Jane Elizabeth Dex- Ter
poet, was born July 7, 1831, in Utica, N. Y. She is a great-granddaughter of Gregor Grant, who was a chieftain of Clan Grant, who came from Scotland and entered the continental army. Her education was acquired in Utica and Albany; and at the early age of fourteen volume of her poems was issued from the press. Her marriage in 1865 to a Cramer H. Conklin, a war veteran, led to her removal to Binghamton. She has taken a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the G. A. R., and for three years served as president of the Relief corps. She has attained a good reputation as an elocutionist; and is the author of three volumes of poems.
Conklin, William Augustus
journalist, naturalist, was born March 16, 1837, in New York city. He has been connected with Central park since 1858, and director of the zoological department since 1870. He possesses one of the most complete libraries in the country on the subjects of mammalia and ornithology.
He is editor of the Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery in New York, and has written articles on natural history for various periodicals.
Conklin, William Judkins
physician, was born Dec. 1, 1844, in Sidney, Ohio. He was physician to the Dayton hospital for the insane from 1869 till 1871, and afterward became secretary of its board of trustees. He was professor of physiology in Starling Medical college, Columbus, Ohio, from 1875 till 1878, and of diseases of children from 1878 till 1884.
He is visiting surgeon to St. Elizabeth's hospital, Dayton, and a member of various medical societies. He has contributed frequently to medical journals, and has published several monographs, including History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.
Conkling, Alfred
jurist, author, was born Oct. 12, 1789, in East Hampton, N. Y. He was a jurist of New York whose son was the noted statesman, Roscoe Conkling. He was the author of Treatise on Organization and Jurisdiction of Superior, Circuit, and District Courts; Admiralty Jurisdiction; Powers of the Executive Department of the United States; and Young Citizen's Manual. He died Feb. 5, 1874, in Utica, N. Y.
Conkling, Alfred Ronald
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 28, 1850, in New York city. He is a lawyer of New York city; and the author of Appleton's Guide to Mexico; City Government in the United States; Handbook for Voters in New York City; and Life of Roscoe Conkling.
Conkling, Frederick A
merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1816, in Montgomery county, N. Y. He was a member of the assembly of New York in 1854, 1859, and 1860; and was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress. He died Sept. 18, 1891, in New York city.
CONKLING (MRS. STEELE), MAR- GARET COCKBURN, author, was born Jan. 27, 1814. She has published Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington; Isabel, or Trials of the Heart; and a translation of Florian's History of the Moors of Spain.
Conkling, Roscoe
lawyer, statesman, was born Oct. 30, 1828, in Albany, N. Y. He was appointed district attorney for Oneida county; in 1858 was elected mayor of Utica, to which place he had removed in 1846; and at the close of 1858 was elected a representative from New York to the thirtysixth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, thirtyninth and fortieth congresses. In 1867 he was chosen a senator in congress for the term ending in 1873. He was president of the republican state convention of 1867; and was reelected to the senate for the term ending in 1879; and was also re-elected for the term ending in 1885. He died April, 1888, in New York.
Conley, Benjamin
merchant, governor, was born March 1, 1815, in Newark, N. J. In 1869 he was elected state senator and president of the senate; and in 1871-72 was elected governor of Georgia.
He died in 1885 in Atlanta, Ga.
Conley, Eli Philip
educator, was born Aug. 25, 1868, in Smoketown, Pa.
He received his education in the schools of his native county, and graduated from the Cnester State Normal school. He has been successful in educational work, and is principal of schools at Parkesburg, Pa.
Conley, John Dikeman
scientist, was born Sept. 14, 1843, in Rockport, N. Y.
He was elected to the chair of chemistry and natural sciences in Blackburn university, Carlinville, Ill. He has published a series of geological charts of all the ages and epochs, illustrated with two hundred figures of characteristic fossils.
Conley, John E
lawyer, was born Sept. 7, 1868, in Warren, R. I. During 1889-91 he was clerk of committee on corporation in the Rhode Island house of representatives; and in 1894 was clerk of the house. Since 1892 he has been secretary of the democratic state committee; and was a delegate at large to the democratic national convention in 1896. He is a prominent member of various 'secret organizations; and has a successful law practice in his native city.
Conley, John Wesley
clergyman, was born Nov. 20, 1852, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He resigned his pastorate in 1892, to accept the chair of missions in the divinity school of the university of Chicago, and the presidency of city missions. In 1893 he accepted a call to the First Baptist church of St. Paul, Minn.
Conley, William G
lawyer, editor, politician, was born Jan. 8, 1866, in Kingwood, W. Va., of Scotch-Irish parentage. He received a thorough education and graduated from the West Virginia university with the degree of LL. B. For many years he was engaged in educational work, and has been county superintendent of the free schools of Preston county, W. Va. He was also mayor of Parsons for one term. He is one of the rising lawyers of his state, and is now state's attorney for Tucker county, W.
Va. He is also the editor of the Parsons City Advocate, and contributes extensively to current literature. Mr. Conley was a member of the congressional committee of the second West Virginia district; chairman of the republican executive committee of his county; and one of the assistant secretaries of the St.
Louis convention that nominated McKinley for president in 1896.
Conn, Charles Gerard
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1844, in Phelps, N. Y. In early boyhood he moved with his parents to Elkhart, Ind., where he has since resided. He served throughout the civil war as a soldier in the union army. He is a successful manufacturer of musical instruments, which were awarded the highest honors and the best diploma at the World's Columbian exposition. He has taken an active part in the public affairs of his adopted state; and served with distinction as a member of the fifty-third congress.