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portant operations in Wall street. He was also a favorite broker of Eussell Sage and other leading capitalists in Wall street. Mr.

Connor retired from Wall street in 1887. Conover, Simon Barclay, physician, .United States senator, was born Sept. 33, 1840, in Middlesex county, N.J. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the army of the Cumberland in 1863. He was a member of the Florida convention which framed the state constitution in 1868; was appointed state treasurer; and was a member of the Chicago convention in 1868. He was elected to the state legislature from the county of Leon, and presided over that body. In 1873-79 he was a United States senator. Conover, Thomas A., naval officer, was born in 1794 in New Jersey. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1848, and in 1857-58 commanded the squadron on the coast of Africa. In 1862 he was promoted to the rank of commodore; and placed on the retired list, having been in the service fifty-three years, in S. Amboy, N.J.

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Conrad, Henry Clay, lawyer, librarian, genealogist, author, was born April 35, 1858, in Bridesberg, Pa. He was elected president of the city council of Wilmington in 1882; and in 1880-90 acted as United States chief supervisor of elections of the district of Delaware; and has been the city solicitor of Wilmington. He is the author of Conrad

Genealogy. Conrad, Holmes, soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born Jan. 31, 1840, in Winchester, Va. In 1862 he served in the civil war. Since that time he has practiced law. In 1881-83 he was a member of the Virginia state legislature. In 1895-97 he was solicitor-general of the United States. Qonrad, John, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania in 1813-15. He died in Peimsylvanla. Conrad, Joseph, soldier. He was a distinguished soldier in the union army during the civil war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died July 15, 1897, in Atlantic City, N.J.

Conrad, Joseph Speed, soldier, was bom 33, 1833, in Ithaca, N.Y. He served in the civil war; and received three brevets, as major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of volunteers. He died Dec. 4, 1891, in Fort Randall, S.C. Conrad, Robert Taylor, lawyer, dramatist,

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clergyman, author,

was born Nov. 26, 1855, in Shiloh, Ind. In 1885 he was ordained to the ministry; and since 1905 he has been pastor of the Park street congregational church of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Flashes from Forge. Conrad, Charles M., soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1804 in Winchester, Va. He served a number of years in the state legislature; in 1843-43 he

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poet, was bom June 10, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; _ _ _ and mayor of that city in 1854. He was once 1 ^

was United States senator and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1844. In 1849-51 he was a representative from Louisiana to the thirty-first congress; and in 1850-53 he was secretary of war. He served in the southern rebellion as a brigadier-general. He died Feb. 11, 1878, in New Orleans, La. Conrad Frowenus, clergyman, abbot, was bom in 1833 in Switzerland. Having received directions to found a monastery of his order in the United States in 1873, he embarked for this country and founded the Benedictine monastery of New Engelberg at Conception, Mo., which was erected into an abbey in 1881. In 1885 Father Conrad was chosen as its first abbot. Conrad, Frederick, congressman. In 180307 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the eighth and ninth congresses. He died in Pennsylvania. Conrad, Frederick William, clergyman, journalist, was born Jan. 3, 1816, in Orwigsburg, Pa. He was editor of the Lutheran Observer of Philadelphia, Pa.; and a trustee of the Lutheran publication society. He was the author of The Lutheran Doctrine of Baptism; Analysis of Luther's Small Catechism; The Evangelical Lutheran Church; The Call to the Ministry; and The Liturgical Question. He died in 1898 in Philadelphia, Pa.

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as a dramatic He was the author of Aylmere, or the Old Bondsman of Kent, a tragedy in which Jack Cade is the poet.

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chief figure, a role in which Edwin Forrest was very successful. Also Conrad of Naples, J another tragedy, had also a measure of popularity. He died June 27, 1858, in Philaj

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Conrad, Timothy Abbott, conchologist, author, was bora in August, 1803, in New Jersey. He was the author of Fossil Sheila of the Tertiary Formations of North America} New Fresh-Water Shells of the United States; Miocene Shells of the United States;

and Palaeontology of State of New York. died Aug. 9, 1877, in Trenton, N.J.

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Conrad, William, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 11, 1808, in Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of Mestmoreland college of Mount Pleasant, Pa., to which he presented his large collection of geological specimens. He was the author of Baptism.

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died Feb. 16, 1865. Conreid, Heinrich, actor, theatrical manager, was born Sept. 13, 1855, was born in Austria. He made his debut as an actor in 1873. Since 1892 he has been manager of