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704 court in what was afterward known as Essex county. He organized the first Puritan church at Cape Ann. In 1(540, his son Roger, "being the first-born child in Salem," received from the town a grant of forty acres of land. In 1671 he peti- tioned the legislature to change the name of Bev- erly, "because (wee being but a smale place) it hath caused on us a constant nickname of beggar- ly, being in the mouths of many."

CONCANEN, Luke, bishop, b. in Ireland ; d. in Naples, Italy, in 1810. He was educated in Rome, where he acquired so much influence that ecclesi- astical appointments in Ireland were usually de- termined by his advice. He was also interested in tlie missions of America, and to some extent the founder of the Dominican convent of St. Rose in Kentucky, which he sustained by his contributions to the end of his life. In 1808 he was created first bishop of New York, and was also commissioned by the pope to carry the pallium to Archbishop Carroll. As his attempt to sail for the United States from Leghorn was frustrated by the dis- turbed condition of the country, he went to Naples, whence he expected to sail, but was arrested by order of Murat, on the pretext that he was a Brit- ish subject. He was imprisoned in the convent of St. Dominic at Naples, and the hardships he en- dured caused his death.

CONCHA, José Gutiérrez de la (coan'-cha), mai-quis of Havana, Spanish soldier, b. in Cordova, Argentine Republic, in 1809. He went to Spain very young, entered the army, fought against the revolutionary troops in South America, and after- ward took part in the first Carlist war. In 1839 he was bre vetted lieutenant-general, and afterward held the command of the Spanish cavalry. In 1850-'2 he was governor-general of Cuba. t)uring this short administration occurred the invasion of the island by an expedition that sailed from the United States under command of Gen. Narciso Lopez, who was defeated, captured, and executed in Havana, 1 Sept., 1851. A few days before, 14 Aug., fifty of his followers were shot. In 1854 Concha was again appointed governor-general of Cuba, which post he retained until 1859, when he returned to Spain, where he was appointed minis- ter of war in 1863, and president of the senate in 1864. Queen Isabella appointed him prime minis- ter just after the revolution broke out in Spain, 29 Sept., 1868. A third time he was appointed governor-general in 1874, in the midst of the Cuban insurrection ; but his administration lasted only a few months. In 1886 he was elected pi'esi- dent of the Spanish senate. Gen. Concha has published " Ensayo sobre la Situacion Politica en Cuba " (1860) ; " Memoria sobre la guerra de Cuba " (1876) ; and memoii's of his first administration.

CONCHA TORO, Melchor (coan'-chah), Chili- an statesman, b. in the city of Santiago, 19 June, 1823. He was wealthy, and devoted his knowledge of law and financial matters to the service of Chili. In 1864 he became a member of the chamber of deputies, and in 1870 was elected to the senate, becoming its vice-president. He was also minister of finance in 1869 under Perez's administration, and in 1886 he was again chosen senator. He has written " Chile durante los anos de 1824 a 1828 " (Santiago, 1864).

CONCILIO, Gennaro Luigi Vincenzo de, cler- gyman, b. in Naples, Italy, 5 July, 1835 ; d. in Jer- sey City, N. J., 22 March, 1898. He was educated in Naples, and ordained deacon in 1857. During the same year he entered the missionary college in Genoa, with the intention of devoting his life to for- eign missions. He was ordained priest in 1859, and sent to the diocese of Newark, N. J., where, in April, 1860, he became assistant rector of the Church of Our Lady of Grace, in Hoboken. In September, 1860, he was appointed professor of dogmatic theology, logic, and metaphysics in Seton Hall college. South Orange, N. J., but failing health compelled him to resign this chair at the end of the year. From 1861 till 1867 he was assistant in St. Mary's church, Jersey City, and in 1867 was made rector of St. Michael's in the same city. His relations with the college have been maintained, and he continues to be pro-synodal examiner in theology, and on several occasions has taught moral theology in the seminary. In Febniary, 1886, he was appointed, by Leo XIIL, Cameriere Segreto to his holiness, a dignity that entitles the person receiving it to be addressed as " very rever- end monsignor." Monsignor Concilio has made a special study of the summa of St. Thomas Aquinas, and contributed frequent articles to the Catholic journals, and has published " Catholicity and Pan- theism " (1874) ; " The Knowledge of Mary " (New York, 1878) ; and " Intellectual Philosophy " (1878).

CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de la, French geographer, b. in Paris, 28 Jan., 1701 ; d. there, 4 Feb., 1774. He was educated at the University of Paris, entered the army in 1719, and was distin- guished at the siege of Rosas, but abandoned mili- tary life to join an expedition whose object was to explore the coasts of Asia and Africa. He visited the Troad, Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Constantinople, and in 1735, with Bouguer and others, was sent to Peru by the Academy of sciences to measure an arc of the meridian. While in South America he also made observations on the use of caoutchouc by the natives, and to him is ascribed the intro- duction of the article into Europe; and he also tried to introduce into France inoculation for small-pox. He was the first to discover that the deflection of a plumb-line by the attraction of a mountain is a measurable quantity. He was made a fellow of the Royal society of London in 1748, and a member of the French academy in the year 1760. He published treatises on geography, natu- ral history, and physics, and had some reputation as a writer of verses. His works include " Rela- tion abregee d'un voyage fait dans I'interieur de I'Amerique Meridionale" (Paris, 1745), and "La figure de la terre determinee par les observations de MM. de la Condamine et Bouguer" (1749). See Condorcet's " filoge de la Condamine."

CONDICT, Ira, clergyman, b. in Orange, N. J., 21 Feb., 1764; d. in New Brunswick, N. J., 1 June, 1811. He was the son of a farmer, was gradu- ated at Princeton in 1784, and afterward taught at Monmouth, N. J., at the same time pursuing a course of theological study. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of New Brunswick in April, 1786, and ordained pastor of the churches at Newton, Hardwick, and Shappenack, in November, 1787. In 1794 he was installed pastor of the Re- formed Dutch church in New Brunswick, where he remained until he died. It was chiefiy through his efforts that Queen's (now Rutgers) college, which had been closed for several years, was reopened in 1807. Under his leadership the trustees deter- mined to raise, by the help of the Reformed churches, $12,000 for the erection of a spacious building and to open the college immediately. Dr. Condict assumed the duties of president pro tein- pore, and instructed the highest class. In 1809 he was regularly appointed professor of moral phi- losophy and vice-president, having declined the presidency ; but the actual duties of the oflice were performed by him since Dr. Livingston, the nominal