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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Conley, William Gustavus, lawyer, editor, was born Jan. 8, 1866, in Kingwood, W.Va., of Scotch-Irish parentage. He received a thorough education and graduated from the West Virginia university with the degree of LL.B. For many years he was engaged in educational work. He has been county superintendent of the free schools Preston of county, W.Va.; and he politician,

was mayor

of Parsons for one term. He served as state's attorney for Tucker county for three terms; editor of the Parsons City Advocate; was a member of the congressional committee of the second West Virginia district; chairman of the republican executive committee of his county; and one of the assistant secretaries of the St. Louis

convention

that

nominated

McKinley

in

1896.

Conley, William Maxwell, lawyer, jurist, was born July 17, 1866, in Maxwell Creek, Cal. He moved to Madera in 1892; and assisted in county division in the state legislature. He was judge of the superior court of California in 1893-98. Conn, Charles Gerard, soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1844 in

Phelps, N.Y. He served throughout the civil war as a soldier in the union army. He is a. successful manufacturer of musical instruments at Elkhart, Ind. His instruments were awarded the highest honors and the best diploma at the World's Columbian exposition. In 1893-95 he was a representative from Indiana to the fifty-third congress. 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 1888. He is the author of Evolution

To-Day; The Living World; and Whence Came, Whither It is Drifting; The Story Germ Life; The Story of the Living Machine; and other works. Connell, William, banker, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1837, 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, Pa.; and in 1870, the charter of that company lapsing, he purchased the plant and organized the firm of William Connell and company. He is president of the Third national bank of Scranton; was a delegate to of

It of

the republican national convention of 1896. In 1897-1905 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth congresses. Connelley, William Elsey, banker, author, was born March 15, 1855, in Johnson county,

Ky. Since 1893 he has been connected

with banking interests in Kansas City, Kan. is the author of The Provisional Govern-

He

ment of Nebraska Territory; Wyandot Folk-Lore; and Kansas Territorial Governors.

Connell,

William

J.,

lawyer, congressman,

was born July 6, 1846, in Canada. He received an academic education; he spent his boyhood days 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 1873, and received the re-election two years later. In 1883 he was appointed city attorney of Omaha, and held that office for four years. In 1888 he was ekcted to the fiftyfirst United States congress, and served on numerous important committees. In 1890 he was defeated for congress by William J. Bryan. In 1893 he was re-appointed city attorney of Omaha, which position he held continuously for over ten years; and is now attorney for the Omaha street railway company and various other corporations. Connelly, Mrs. Celia Logan, journalist, dramatist, was born in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a journalist and playwright of New York City. She is the author of Under American Marriage; Gaston Cadol and other plays; also Her Strange Fate; Larz, a story of the stage; and other plays. She died in 1904 in New York City. Connelly, Emma M., author, was born about 1835 in Kentucky. She is a writer of New York City. She is 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 bom in Virginia. He moved to Kansas and in 186165 was governor of the territory of New

Mexico. Connelly, James Henderson, soldier, journalist, author, was born July 16, 1840, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was first lieutenant in the one hundred and forty-fifth regiment New York volunteers in the civil war. He was the author of My Casual Death; and other novels, dealing with theosophic and occult subjects. He died City.

March

13, 1903, in

New

York

John, clergyman, bishop, was 1750 in Ireland. He founded churches in Utica and Rochester; and erected an orphan asylum in New York which he conConnelly,

bom

in

fided to the care of the Sisters of charity. died in 1825 in York City. Conner, David, naval officer, was born in 1792 in Harrisburg, Pa. He took part in the

New

He

action

between the Hornet and the Pea-

cock in 1813.

He

Philadelphia, Pa.

died

March

20,

1856, in