Conrad, Frederick William – Conway, Moncure Daniel
Conrad, Frederick William
clergyman, journalist, was born Jan. 3, 1816, in Orwigsburg, Pa. He received a thorough education, and graduated from the Mount Airy college of Germantown, Pa.; and subsequently from the Theological seminary of Gettysburg. He has been a successful pastor of Lutheran churches in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Ohio; and for several years was professor of modern languages at the Wittenburg college of Springfield, Ohio. He is the editor of the Lutheran Observer of Philadelphia, Pa., and a trustee of the Lutheran Publication society. He is the is the author of The Lutheran Doctrine of Baptism; Analysis of Luther's Small Catechism; The Evangelical Lutheran Church ; The Call to the Ministry; and The Liturgical Question.
Conrad, George Elihu
lawyer, was born March 22, 1852, in Bollinger county, Mo. He graduated from the Missouri State university, and has received the degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of pedagogics, and bachelor of laws. In 1885-86 he was prosecuting attorney of his of his county; and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Marble Hill, Mo.
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, Robert Taylor
lawyer, jurist, poet, was born June 10, 1810, in 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of and Philadelphia mayor of that city in 1854, who was once noted as a dramatic poet. He was the author of Aylmere, or the Bondman of Kent, a tragedy in which Jack Cade is the chief figure, a role in which Edwin Forrest was very successful. Conrad of Naples, another tragedy, had also a measure of popularity. He died June 27, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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.
Constable, Albert
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a presidential elector in 1832; was a representative in congress from 1845 to 1847; and elected judge of the circuit court of Maryland in 1851. He died in September, 1855, in Camden, N. J.
Constien, William Wallace
clergyman, was born Sept. 10, 1869, in Lancaster, Pa. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university, and from the Boston university, and has received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. He has attained distinction as a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, has filled pastorates in Toledo and Bowling Green, Ohio, and now fills a pastorate in Pemberville.
Contee, Benjamin
clergyman, was born in 1755 in Maryland. He became a clergyman of the protestant episcopal church. In 1776 he was an officer in the third Maryland battalion. He was a member of the continental congress in 1787-88, and was elected to the first congress under the constitution, in which body he voted in 1790 for establishing the seat of government on the Potomac. Subsequently he became the presiding judge of the Charles county, Md., testamentary court. He died Nov. 3, 1815, in Charles county, Md.
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 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 of the southern presbyterian church. He died 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.
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, John William
journalist, poet, was born June 22, 1851, in Portageville, N. Y. He graduated from the Iowa State Agricultural college, and was subsequently deputy recorder of Allamakee county, Iowa. He is the editor and owner of the Champion of Norton, Kan., and is the author of many poems of merit.
Conway, Katherine Eleanor
journalist, poet, was born in 1853 in New York. She is a journalist of Boston, on the editorial staff of the Pilot, and the author of Songs of the Sunrise Slope; A Dream of Lilies, a volume of poems; A Lady and Her Letters; and Making Friends and Keeping Them.
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 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, Moncure Daniel
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born March 17, 1832, in Stafford county, Va. He is a unitarian clergyman of extremely radical views, who has for many years been in charge of a congregation in London. He has been a prolific writer in several fields, the larger number of his writings being The Rejected Stone; Idols and Ideals; Demonology and Devil Lore; The Wandering Jew; Sketch of Carlyle; The Earthward Pilgrimage; Sacred Anthology, a compilation; Emerson at Home and Abroad; George Washington and Mount Vernon; Omitted Chapters in Life and Letters of Edmund Randolph; Life of Thomas Paine; Tracts for To-Day; Natural History of the Devil; The Golden Hour; Testimonies Concerning Slavery; Human Sacrifices in England; Lessons for the Day; Travels in South Kensington; A Necklace of Stories; Pine and Palm, a novel; and Prisms of Air, a novel.