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Connelly, Henry Clay, soldier, journalist, lawyer, was born Dec. 22, 1831, in Petersburg, Pa. He was educated at the Somerset academy of Pennsylvania. Since 1860 he has practiced law in

Rock

Island,

111.,

ex-

cepting three years he was in the army. In 1852-59 he was engaged in journalism, and is a veteran of the civil war. He was lieutenant, captain and major in the fourteenth regiment Illinois volunteers was in the- great Morgan raid; was at the siege of Knoxville; at the capture of Cumberland gap; and in most of the engagements in East Tennessee under General Burnside. He was in the Cherokee Indian fight in North Carolina in 1864 and commanded the battery; and was in the cavalry fights on Duck river Jind in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. Since 1867 he has been attorney for R. G. Dun and company; for several years was president of the board of education of Rock Island; and president of the Rock Ifland city library. He became president of the Rock Island and Milan street

railway company; and has

filled

numerous

other positions of trust and honor. Conner, Jacob Elon, educator, author, was born in Wilmington, Ohio. Since 1900 he has been a fellow in sociology at the state university of Iowa. He is the author of

Unele

Sam

Abroad.

Conner, James, typefounder, inventor, was bom April 22, 1798, in Hyde Park, N.Y. He did much for the art of printing; invented a new kind of type called agate; and invented a process for producing matrices for casting type by chemical precipitation. He died in

May, 1861,

in

New York

City.

Conner, James, soldier, lawyer, was bom Sept. 1, 1829, in Charleston, S.C. In 1861 he entered the confederate army and served in may campaigns; and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. He was attorney-general of South Carolina in 1876-77. He died June 26, 1883, in

South Carolina.

Conner, James Perry, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan, 27, 1851, in Delaware county, Ind. In 1885 he was judge of the thirteenth judicial district of Iowa; and later was elected judge of the sixteenth judicial district of Iowa. He was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1892. In 1901-09 he was a representative from Iowa to the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses as a republican.

Conner, John C, soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1843, in Noblesville, Ind. He entered the army in 1862 as a lieutenant; and upon the reorganization of the army in 1866 was appointed a, captain in the

forty-first infantry, and served in Texas. In 1869-73 he was a representative to the forty-first and forty-second congresses. He died in Washington. Conner, Phineas Sanborn, physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 23, 1839, in Westchester, Pa. In 1861-66 he served in the civil war as assistant surgeon in the regular army. In 1878-1901 he was professor of surgery at Dartsmouth college. In 1891 he was president of the American surgical association; and in 1892 was president of the American academy of medicine. Conner, Samuel Shepard, soldier, congressman, was bom about 1783 in New Hampshire. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the United States army in 1812. In 1815-17 he he was a representative from Massachusetts to the fourteenth congress. He held the office of surveyor-general in Ohio in 1819. He died Dec. 7, 1820, in Covington, Ky. Conners, Maria W., poet. She is the author of Wreath of Maple Leaves a volume

A



of poems.

Conners, William James, publisher, conwas born Jan. 3, 1857, in Buffalo, N.Y. Since 1885 he has been a freight contractor. Since 1895 he has been proprietor of the Buffalo Enquirer; and since 1897 he has been also proprietor of the Buffalo Courtractor,

ier; and now employs six his various enterprises.

Connery, nalist,

thousand men

in

Thomas Bernard Joseph^ jourwas born Oct. 13, 1838, in

author,

Ireland. He filled nearly every position except that of financial editor on the New York Herald in 1869-84. He is the author of

Black Friday;

That Noble Mexican; All the Dog's Fault; History of American Comic Journalism; and Trip to Mars. Conness, John, merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1821, in Ireland. He was a member of the California state legislature three terms.- In 1859 he was a candidate for lieutenant-governor of California; and in 1861 a candidate for governor. In 1863-69 he was United States senator from California. Connine, Main J., lawyer, jurist. In 1899 he was judge of the twenty-second circuit court of Michigan at Oscoda. Connolly, Daniel Ward, lawyer, congressman, was born April 24, 1847, in Cohocton, N.Y. In 1883-85 he was a representative from Pennsjflvania to the forty-eighth con-

My

gress.

Connolly, James Austin, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 8, 1843,' in Newark, N.J. He entered the United States army in 1862 as a private in the one hundred

and twenty -third Illinois volunteers; and was afterward captain, major and brevet lieutenant-colonel. He served as a member of the Illinois house of representatives in 1873-75;. and was United States attorney for the southern district of Hlinois in 187685, and 1889-83. In 1895-99 he was a representative from Illinois to the fifty-fourth

and

fifty-fifth congresses as

a republican.