Conn, Herbert William – Conrad, Frederick
Conn, Herbert William
educator, scientist, was born in 1859 in Massachusetts. He is a biologist whose specialty is the bacteriology of milk; and has been instructor and professor of biology at Wesleyan university since 1884.
He is the author of Evolution of To-Day; The Living World; and Whence It Came and Whither It is Drifting.
Connell, William
congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1827, in Cape Breton, N. S. He was placed in charge of the mines of the Susquehanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad and Coal company, with offices at Scranton; and in 1870, the charter of that company lapsing, he purchased the plant with his savings and organized the firm of William Connell and Co. He is president of the Third National bank of Scranton, and has been prominent in charitable and religious work. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1896, and is a member of the Pennsylvania republican committee. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress.
Connell, William J
lawyer, congressman, was born July 6, 1846, in Canada. He received an academic education, and for many years was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Massachusetts and Vermont, and since 1867 has lived in Omaha, Neb. In 1870 he was admitted to the bar; was elected district attorney in 1872, and received the re-election two years later. In 1883 he was appointed city attorney of Omaha, and held that office for four years. While in that position he saved Omaha nearly a million dollars by his successful defense of suits for damages, and by his sound legal advice on important questions. In 1888 he was elected to the fifty-first United States congress, and has served on numerous important committees. In 1890 he was defeated for congress by William J. Bryan. Since 1892 he has been city attorney of Omaha.
Connelly, Mrs. Celia Logan
journalist, dramatist, was born in 1839 in Pennsylvania. She is a journalist and playwright of Washington; and the author of An American Marriage.
Connelly, Emma M
author, was born in 18- in Kentucky. She is a writer of New York city; and the author of Under the Surface; Tilting at Wind Mills, a Story of the Blue Grass Country; and The Story of Kentucky.
Connelly, Henry
governor, was born in Virginia. He moved to Kansas and in 1861 was appointed governor of the territory of New Mexico, residing in Santa Fe, and remaining in office until 1865.
Conner, David
naval officer, was born in 1792 in Harrisburg, Pa. He entered a counting-house in Philadelphia in 1806 , became a midshipman in the navy in 1809, and, as acting lieutenant, took part in the action between the Hornet and the Peacock, 1813. He died March 20, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Conner, James
typefounder, was born April 22, 1798, in Hyde Park, N. Y.
He did much for the art of printing, inventing among other things a new kind of type called agate, and a process for producing matrices for casting type by chemical precipitation. He died in May, 1861, in New York city.
Conner, John C
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1842, in Noblesville, Ind. He entered the army in 1862 as a lieutenant, and served until the close of the war; and upon the reorganization of the army in 1866 was appointed a captain in the forty-first infantry, and served in Texas. He was elected to the fortyfirst and forty-second congresses. He died in Washington.
Conner, Samuel S
soldier, congressman, was born in New Hampshire.
He was a lieutenant-colonel in the United States army in 1812. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1817; and held the office of surveyor-general in Ohio in 1819. He died Dec. 7, 1820, in Covington, Ky.
Conners, Maria W
poet. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled A Wreath of Maple Leaves. For many years she was a resident of Washington, and was there known as the Puget Sound poetess.
Conness, John
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1821, in Ireland. He was elected to the state legislature, and was re-elected three times. In 1859 he was candidate for lieutenant-governor of California, and in 1861 a candidate for governor. In 1863 he was elected a senator in congress from California, for the term ending in 1869.
Connolly, Daniel Ward
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 24, 1847, in Cohocton, N. Y. Upon the organization of the new county of Lackawanna, in 1878, he was elected president judge, but the state supreme court decided there was no vacancy. He was an unsuccessful candidate for congress in 1880; and in 1882 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortyeighth congress.
Connolly, James Austin
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 8, 1843, in Newark, N. J. He entered the United States army in 1862 as a private in the one hundred and twenty-third Illinois volunteers, and was afterward captain, major , and brevet lieutenant-colonel. He served as a member of the Illinois house of representatives in 1873-75; and was United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois from 1876 to 1885 and again from 1889 to 1893. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Connolly, William J
farmer, educator, state legislator, was born Feb. 27, 1860, in Washington, Ohio. He taught school for fifteen years, and in 1888-89 was in the railway mail service. He was a member of the seventy-second general assembly of Ohio as a democrat.
Connor, Henry W
congressman, was born in August, 1793, in Prince George county, Va. He was aid-de-camp to General Joseph Graham in the Creek war; and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1821 to 1841, when he declined a re-election. In 1848 he served in the general assembly; and declined a re-election. He died Jan. 15, 1866, in North Carolina.
Connor, Patrick Edward
soldier, journalist, was born March 17, 1820, in Ireland. He served in the Florida war; and also in the Mexican war. In 1863 he was commissioned a brigadier-general; and at the close of the war was brevetted major-general. He located the first silver mine in Utah; wrote the first mining law; introduced navigation on the Great Salt lake; built the first silver-lead smelting works; and founded the town of Stockton.
Connor, Selden
soldier, educator, was born Jan. 25, 1839, in Fairfield, Maine.
He enlisted in 1860 as a private in a Vermont regiment. He subsequently became lieutenant-colonel of a Maine regiment; was promoted to the rank of colonel; was severely wounded in the battle of the Wilderness in 1864; and was then made a brigadier-general. In 1868 he was appointed an assessor of internal revenue; in 1873 a collector of internal revenue; and in 1875 was elected governor of the state of Maine.
Connor, Washington Everett
financier, was born Dec. 15, 1849, in New York city. Having attracted the notice of Jay Gould, Mr. Connor was entrusted by him with various commissions, which he executed with brilliant energy and entire success. The great financier was a competent judge of men, and, in 1881, he formed a partnership with the young broker, under the name of W. E. Connor and Co., and, in time, pleased with his adroitness, energy and audacity, admitted him to intimate friendship. George J.
Gould became a member of the firm upon attaining his majority. For many years, both before and after 1881, Mr. Connor was the confidential representative of Jay Gould and was intrusted with the management of many important operations in Wall street. He was also a favorite broker of Russell Sage and other leading capitalists in Wall street. During recent years, Mr. Connor has gained an interest in the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago and the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads, and various other corporations, and devoted himself to improving his properties.
Connover, Simon Barclay
physician, United States senator, was born Sept. 23, 1840, in Middlesex county, N. J.
He was appointed assistant surgeon in the army of the Cumberland, in 1863, and stationed at Nashville, Tenn.; after several promotions, was ordered to Lake City, signed his commission. He was a mem- Fla., in 1866, and shortly afterward reber of the convention which framed the state constitution in 1868; was appointed state treasurer; was a member of the Chicago convention in 1868; and was appointed a member of the national republican committee, on which he served four years. He was elected to the state legislature from the county of Leon, and presided over that body. He was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879.
Conrad, Charles M
soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1804 in Winchester, Va. He served a number of years in the state legislature; was a senator in congress in 1842 and 1843; and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1844. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1849 to 1850, when he became secretary of war under President Fillmore. He served in the southern rebellion as a brigadier-general. He died Feb. 11, 1878, in New Orleans, La.
Conrad, F
abbot, was born in 1833 in Switzerland. Having received directions to found a monastery of his order in the United States in 1873, he embarked for this country and founded the Benedictine monastery of New Engleberg, at Conception, Mo., which was erected into an abbey in 1881. In 1885 Father Conrad was chosen as its first abbot.
Conrad, Frederick
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1803 to 1807.