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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Conant, Alban Jasper, artist, archaeologist, was born Sept. 34, 1821, in Chelsea, Orange county, Vt. He received a thorough education at the Kandolph academy of Vermont, and the Govenour Wesleyan seminary. He was curator of the state university of Missouri for

author,

years. He was chairman of the commission to locate and establish the school of

eight

Mines and Metallurgy under the congressional land grant; and he

was the Delegui correspondent

for Missouri of the Institution Ethnographique of Paris, France. He is the author of Footprints of Vanished Races in the Mississippi Valley; Archaeology of the Mississippi Valley; and other works. As an artist and archaeologist

he

has attained national prominence, and

resides in

New York

City.

Conant, Charles Arthur, journalist, states-

man, author, was born on July 3, 1861, in Winchester, Mass. He became Washington correspondent of the Boston Post in 1886, and of the Commercial Bulletin in 1889. He was a candidate to the legislature in 1886; and a candidate for congress in 1894. He is the author of A History of Modern Banks of Issue, with An Account pf the Economic Crises of the Present Century. Conant, Edward, educator, author, was born May 10, 1829, in Pomfret, Vt. His educational work began in 1861; and became state superintendent for Vermont. He is the author of Drill Book in English Conant's Vermont; and Primary Historical Reader. Conant, Ernest Vancroft, is dean of Washburn college school of law at Topeka, Kan.

Conant, Frederick Odell, merchant, genwas born Oct. 1, 1857, in Portland, Maine. He is a successful merchant of Portland, Maine; and a director in various corporations. He has been councilman and alderman; and is a member of the Maine historical society. He is the author of History and Genealogy of the Conant Family. Conant, Grace Wilbur, composer, author, was born in Boston, Mass. She is a composer of songs for school and kindergarden. She is a musical editor and a writer of short stories. She has composed Little Dog Barked at the Big Round Moon; Pussy Cat and the Mouse and Little Town of Bethlehem. Conant, Mrs. Hannah O'Brien, oriental scholar, author, was born in 1809 in Danvers, Mass. She was an oriental scholar who assisted her husband in his literary work; and made translations from the German of Strauss, Neander and Uliden. She was the author of History of the English Bible; Popular History of English Bible Translation; and The Earnest Man, a sketcli of Judson, the missionary. She died Feb. 18, 1865, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Conant, Mrs. Helen, journalist, author, was born Oct. 9, 1839, in Methuen, Mass. She was the author of The Butterfly Hunters; and Primers of German and Spanish Literature. She died in 1899 in New York City. Conant, John, manufacturer, legislator, congressman was born in Ashburnham, Mass. In 1813-15 he was a representative to the thirteenth congress. He represented the of Brandon in the legislature for many years; was a member of the convention for revising the constitution of the state; and a presidential elector in 1840. He erected in Brandon a large baptist seminary. He died in 1856 in Brandon, Vt. Conant, Levi Leonard, educator, mathematician, author, was born March 3, 1857, in Littleton, Mass. In 1879-87 he was engaged in public school work; and has since been professor of mathematics. He is the author of The Number Concept, Its Origin and Development; Original Exercises in Plane and Solid Geometry; Plane and Spherical Trig-

town

onometry; and numerous papers on mathematical and educational subjects. Conant, Roger, pioneer, was born in April, 1593, in England. He was a representative at the first court in 1634; and in 1637 was a justice of the quarterly court in what was afterward known as Essex county. He organized the first Puritan church at Cape Ann. In 1640, his son Roger, being the firstborn child in Salem, received from the town a grant of forty acres of land. In 1671 he petitioned the legislature to change the name of Beverly because it hath caused on us a constant nickname of beggarly. He died Nov. 19, 1679, in Beverly, Mass. Conant, Samuel Stillman, journalist, author, was born Dec. 13, 1802, in Brandon, Maine. He was managing editor of Harper's Weekly in 1869-85. He translated Lermontofif's Circassian Boy. He died in 1885 in

New York Conant,

ealogist,



City.

Thomas

Jefferson, clergyman, au-

was born Dec. 13, 1802, in Branden, Vt. He was one of the foremost Hebrew scholars of his time. He was the author of Baptism, Its Meaning and Its Use Philologically Considered. His editions of The Book of Job; The Book of Proverbs; Genesis; thor,

Psalms;

Books

Prophecies

of

Isaiah;

Historical

Testament from Joshua to Second Kings; and The Gospel by Matthew, of the Old

constitute a scholar's version of the Scriptures, amply illustrated with critical and philological notes. He died April 30, 1891, in

Brooklyn, N.Y. Conard, Henry Shoemaker, educator, botanist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1874, in Philadelphia. Pa. In 1895-99 he was teacher Science in Westtown school; in 1899190] w,is Harrison fellow in biology at the university of Pennsylvania; and in 190103 was senior fellow in botany; in 1903-04 was instructor in botany; in 1905-06 was Johnston scholar in the Johns Hopkins university. He is now professor of botany in Iowa college. He is the author of the article of