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Thomas Richardson,

was born

painter, arOct. 20, 1859, in Nelson, Pa.

He has painted The Benediction; Dutch Home; and many others. Conger, A. born in 1829.

L.,

soldier,

Typical

congressman, was

During the civil war he attained the rank of colonel. He served as a member of congress from Ohio. He died Feb. 25, 1899, in Des Moines, Iowa. Conger,

E.

J.,

lawyer,

jurist.

He was

United States judge of the territorial court. Conger, Edwin Kurd, soldier, lawyer, diplomat, congressman, was born March 7, 1843, in

Knox county.

III.

He served until the close of the civil war, attaining the rank of captain; and received the brevet of major for gallant and meritorious conduct in the field.

He was

treasurer

elected

Dallas 1877 and re-elected in 1879; he

county

of

in

was

elected the state of Iowa in 1880 and re-elected in 1882. In 1885-89 he was a representative from Iowa to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses. He was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Brazil, 1890-93; presidential elector at large, Iowa, 1896; United States minister to Brazil twice, in 1892 and 1897; and in 1898 became minister to China at Pekin. He died in 1907

treasurer

Des Moines, Iowa. Conger, Frank, merchant, business president, founder, was born May 21, 1849, in Groton, N.Y. In 1885 he founded the C. W. Conger mercantile company of Groton, N.Y. organized the Bridge and manufacturing company of Groton, N.Y.; and in 1900 became vice-president of the American bridge company. He is president of the First national bank of Groton; and president of the American visible typewriter company of Delaware. Conger, Harmon S., congressman, was born in Connecticut. In 1847-51 he was a, representative from New York to the thirtieth and thirty-first congresses. He died in in

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Conger, Omar Dwight, lawyer, jurist, congressman. United States senator, was born in 1818 in Cooperstown, N.Y. He was elected judge of the St. Clair county court in 1850; and was a state senator in 1855-61. He was a presidential elector on the republican ticket in 1864; and a member of the state constitutional convention in 1866. In 1869-81 he was a representative to the forty-first to the forty-sixth congresses;

and

1881-87 he was United States senator. died July 4, 1898, in Ocean City, Md.

in

He

Conkey, Walter Blakesley, printer, pubwas born July 13, 1858, in Canada. Early in life he began business on a small scale in Chicago, 111.; and has suclisher, founder,

ceeded in building up the well

known firm of B. Conkey company of Hammond, Ind., one of the largest publishing, printing and

W.

book-binding establishments in America, of which he has always been president. Conklin, Abram, clergyman, author, was bom, April 13, 1858, in Nyaek, N.Y. Since 1879 he has filled pastorates in the universalist church. He is the author of What Are You Doing Here. Conklin, Edwin Grant, zoologist, author, was born Nov. .24, 1863, in Waldo, Ohio. In 1885-87 he was professor of latin and Greek at the Eush university; and in 1894-96 was

professor of zoology at the Northwestern university. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He is the author of Anatomy; and Embryology.

Conklin James Tallmadge, soldier, was born in New York. In 1862 he was first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster in the fourteenth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Dec. 31, 1893. Conklin, Mrs, Jane Elizabeth Dexter, poet, was born July 7, 1831, in Utica, N.Y. She has taken a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the grand army of the republic; and for three years served as president of the Relief corps. She is a noted elocutionist; and the author of three volumes of

poems.

L., farmer, congressman, Jersey. He settled in Belvidere, Mich., as early as 1836; was a successful farmer; and a brilliant writer. In 1851-53 he was a representative to the thirty-second congress. He died in Michigan. Conger, John William, educator, college president, was born Feb. 20, 1857, in Jackson, Tenn. He hag 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

Conklin, Mrs. Jennie Maria Drinkwater, author, was born April 14, 1841, in Portland, Maine. She was the author of Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline; Bek's First Corner; Electa; Fifteen; Uncle Justice Seth's Will; The Fairfax Girls; Second Best; Set Free; Fourfold;' Marigold; Other Folk; Miss Prudence Cromwell; The Story of Hannah; Looking Seaward; Dorothy's Islands; Golvdenrod Farm; Shar Burbank; and Dolly French's Household. She died April 30, 1900, in New Vernon, N.J. Conklin, Julia Stout, agriculturist, was born April 27, 1854, in Hamilton county, Ind. She is trustee of the' Indiana soldiers' orphans' home; and in 1905-08 was president of the Robert Dale-Owen memorial as-

college of Arkadelphia, Ark.

sociation.

New

York. Conger, James

was born

in

New