3856. Clinton Barker Conger
Clinton Barker CongerCHURCH_AFFILIATION: Episcopalian.
OCCUPATION: Engineer
RESIDENCES: Aug 1906, at the time of the death of his brother, Charles G.B. Conger, Grand Rapids, MI.
Cornelia Elvira SmithCHURCH_AFFILIATION: Episcopalian.
7314. Amy Florence Conger
Amy Florence CongerNEVER_MARRIED: Unmarried.
7316. Will Payne Conger
Unmarried.
3859. Edmond De Ruyter Conger
Edmond DeRuyter CongerRESIDENCES: Aug 1906, at the time of the death of his brother, Charles G.B. Conger, Edenton, NC
7323. Edward Chamberlain Conger
Edward Chamberlain CongerSSN:
Individual: Conger, Edward
Social Security #: 237-03-0483
SS# issued in: North Carolina
Birth date: Aug 25, 1886
Death date: Jul 1963
Residence code: North Carolina
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Nov 2, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.48091.186]
7326. Charles Gillingham Conger
Charles Gillingham CongerSSN:
Individual: Conger, Charles
Social Security #: 224-14-0974
SS# issued in: Virginia
Birth date: Jan 27, 1899
Death date: Sep 10, 1994
ZIP Code of last known residence: 27534
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Goldsboro, North Carolina
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Nov 1, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.48090.185]
3860. Norman Beach Conger
Norman Beach CongerRESIDENCES: Detroit, MI
RESIDENCES: Aug 1906, at the time of the death of his brother, Charles G.B. Conger, Detroit, MI
7327. Bruce Prosper Conger
Bruce Prosper CongerSSN:
Individual: Conger, Bruce
Social Security #: 373-18-4317
SS# issued in: Michigan
Birth date: Nov 13, 1886
Death date: Jul 1963
Residence code: Michigan
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Oct 31, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.48090.141]
3861. Charles West Conger
Charles West CongerOCCUPATION: Chicken fancier and horticulturalist
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 71- Maxine Crowell Leonard)Problem: Was the date of marriage 10 Jan 1889 or as listed by Charles G.B.
Conger, 16 Jan 1889?
Jessie Loretta CummingsNAME-CONFLICT: Jessie Lorette Cummings by Charles G.B. Conger.
3862. Margaret Daisy Conger
Margaret Daisy CongerProblem: Was the date of birth 15 Nov 1867 or 15 Nov 1868? CFA II, p. 396, 15 Nov 1868, Carmi, IL. Charles G.B. Conger lists, 15 Nov 1867.
RESIDENCES: She was raised in Virginia City, MT.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 396 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)QUESTION: Her husband was brought back from Hawaii to Dillon, MT for burial. Is it possible that Margaret was also brought back to that place for burial
Joseph Boyd PoindexterPARENTS-CONFLICT: Philip Poindexter and Margaret Pipkin (CFA II, p. 396)
EDUCATION: Graduate of Washington University, St. Louis, MO (LLB Degree, 1892)
OCCUPATION: Lawyer, county attorney, federal judge, Attorney General of Montana; Governor of Hawaii 1934-1942
COMMENT: Judge J.B. Poindexter accompanied the body of his father-in-law, Everton J. Conger from Hawaii back to Dillon, MT for burial in 1919. (Furnished by Robert Guilinger)
PUBLIC_SERVICE: Territorial Governor of Hawaii 1934-1942
BIOGRAPHY:
Joseph Boyd Poindexter was born on April 14, 1869 in Canyon City, Oregon, the son of Thomas Watson Poindexter and Margaret Pitkin. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio and graduated with an LLB (Bachelor of Laws) degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1892. He was admitted to the Montana Bar Association in 1892 and practiced law in Dillon, MT from 1892 to 1897.He married Margaret Daisy Conger, the daughter of Judge Everton J. Conger and Emma Kate Boren on April 22, 1897. Two children were born to this union, Everton Gentry (called, George) on 3 Sep 1899 in Dillon, Beaverhead Co., MT and Helen on 27 Feb 1902.
Joseph served as County Attorney for Beaverhead County, MT from 1897 to 1903 and then returned to private law practice in Dillon from 1903 to 1909. He was then appointed District Federal Judge for the 5th Judicial District and served on the bench from 1909 to 1915. He was then elected Montana Attorney General in 1915 and served until appointed U.S. Federal Judge for the District of Hawaii by President Woodrow Wilson on March 16, 1917. He served in this post until he retired to accept the appointment as Territoral Governor of Hawaii by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 30, 1934. This posting became effective in March 1934 for a period of four years. Poindexter was appointed to a second four year term as Territoral Governor in March 1938 and it was the latter part of this term that cause him the most mental and physical anguish.
Seventy-two year old Governor Joseph B. Poindexter was at his official residence, Washington Place, in Honolulu when the first Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. His residence and his nearby office at the Iolani Palace were rocked by explosions on the ground. However, these explosions were not Japanese bombs, but rather U.S. Navy antiaircraft shells that were mis-fired in haste and fell to the ground and exploded on impact.
At mid-day on December 7th, Lt. General Walter Short, Commanding General, U.S. Army in Hawaii, came to see Governor Poindexter and said the Territory of Hawaii should be placed under martial law. Poindexter then called President Roosevelt by phone to verify this and Roosevelt supported martial law. Nothing like this had been known on American soil since the Civil War and then only in rebellious or captured Confederate states. Governor Poindexter said later that he, "never hated doing anything so much" as imposing martial law on the people of Hawaii.
Governor Poindexter's second four year term expired in March 1942 but he was not replaced until the inauguration on August 24, 1942 of Ingram M. Stainback.
Ex-Governor Poindexter remained in Honolulu for the rest of his life and died on December 3, 1951 at the age of 82. His body was returned to Dillon, MT for final burial.
Joseph B. Poindexter was a life-long Democrat, Episcopalian, 32nd degree Mason, Shriner, and a member of the Bar Association of Hawaii and the American Bar Association. (Written by Robert Guilinger, 11 Nov 1998)
BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Boyd Poindexter, 1869-1951 Though his parents were of Virginia nativity, Joseph Boyd Poindexter was born in 1869 in Grant County, Oregon. While not the first of the clan to come to that Territory, Joseph's family was among the most progressive. His uncle, Philip Poindexter, joined forces with one William Orr, to create a cattle empire known as the P&O Ranch of California and Montana, with private holdings also in Oregon. The P&O Ranch of Montana is today known as the Matador, one of the largest and most famous still-operating cattle ranches.Meanwhile, Joseph's father Thomas Watson Poindexter pursued a more homely brand of public notice, working as a merchant and serving for a time as Grant County Clerk. Joseph, however, was bound for higher things. When the family moved to Montana, Joseph by one account sometimes rode for his Uncle Philip. Yet his studies led him to a law degree in 1893, and then to the bar, whence he became an accomplished lawyer. He was married in 1897, opened his own law practice, and later served as Montana State Attorney General, finding his political stance with the conservative Democrats.
In 1917, President Wilson appointed Joseph Poindexter U.S. District Judge for the Territory of Hawaii. From the cold cattle ranges of Montana to the Polynesian paradise, Poindexter doubtless had little trouble adapting to his new home. A brutal blow to his happiness must have been the death of his wife in 1918, yet he continued his work with steady purpose. President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized his administrative acumen, and Joseph B. Poindexter was appointed the first Governor of Hawaii for two full terms, March 1934 through August 1942. He was among the first to advocate Hawaii's statehood, yet that happy endeavor was interrupted by tragedy.
It was his grim fate to be in the Governor's seat one sleepy Sunday morning in December of 1941, when a distant foe visited those tropical shores with fire and death. The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor.
Over the years, much has been written, investigations, hearings, accusations, denials, and in today's lexicon, "Who knew what and when did they know it" relative to the attack.
Governor Poindexter had concerns about the vulnerability of Hawaii to foreign aggression. He visited Secretary of Interior Ickes (Department of the Interior was the administrative arm of the U.S. government in Territorial matters) in the summer of 1941 to protest the transfer of some of the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic. According to Governor Poindexter, Ickes idea was "that our concern out here was with sabotage, that we should guard against the possibility of sabotage." Then and ever after Poindexter felt "very keenly that this attitude was very largely responsible for conditions" in Hawaii. The governor also recalls that Ickes continued with, "Oh, you people need not be alarmed whatever. There is going to be no attack on Hawaii. It is too far away." Time blurred the governor's recollection of all of Ickes' exact words. But this sentence stuck sharply in his mind. "The battle is on the Atlantic."
The attack on Pearl Harbor is documented through words, pictures, and experiences related by those who bore the brunt of the attack.
His voice trembling, the seventy-two year old Governor of Hawaii went on the air from his office via a KGU microphone to read a proclamation of emergency. It was less than necessary, since getting the chaos under control required martial law, which would make General Short military governor (General Short was the top Army commander in Hawaii).
As he was closing, a telephone message was handed to the governor. Short wanted him off the air; another attack was expected, and the Army wanted to shut down Honolulu's radio station to prevent the Japanese from homing in on the broadcast.
Poindexter wept. "We are going off the air for the first time. We have been under attack and the sign of the Rising Sun has been plainly seen on the underside of the planes."
Blotting out Oahu's radio signal was a good idea, but eight hours too late. Still, the governor's aides, panicking that another raid was imminent, hustled him down the stairs as soon as he completed this peroration, pushed him into a car and drove him away.
Bewildered, Poindexter thought he had said something wrong on the air and was being rushed off to house arrest.
Hawaii survived the war with fine fortitude, as did Joseph Poindexter. From 1932 to 1943 he served as president of the American Bar Association, before settling into a quieter life in his island home. Joseph Boyd Poindexter died in Honolulu in 1951. His ashes were returned to the scenes of his youth, and interred at Dillon, Montana. (Source: Howard J. Poindexter's Homepage, Feb 1999)
7333. Everton Gentry Poindexter
Everson Gentry PoindexterAKA: He was probably called, George.
OCCUPATION: Broker
RECOLLECTIONS: Poindexter Collection Heads to Denver Art Museum Nothing new about this story: Businessman falls in love with art. Decides to become artist. Takes lessons. Hears his teacher say: "Why don't you buy art, live with it and learn about it, instead of trying to make it?" The recipient of that advice did not give up his day job, as they say. Instead, Montana-born George Poindexter remained a successful broker and a dogged collector of abstract art in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was a pursuit that complimented his wife Elinor's role as owner of an influential gallery in New York.Eventually, George Poindexter gave more than 100 paintings to the Montana Historical Society in Helena, an institution that could manage the storage, if not the curatorial duties required of works by Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollack, Al Held and Franz Kline. (George Poindexter died in 1975, Elaine in 1994.)
Although the collection is known in Montana, its existence now is being noted in Colorado in an exhibition organized by former Denver Art Museum curator Nancy Tieken. A few years ago, when she went to Great Falls to jury a competition, she heard about the Poindexter works. Eventually, she visited the Historical Society.
"They were in the basement, with a single light bulb and a key," she recalled recently during a tour of the DAM's Close Range Gallery. She contacted surviving artists and spouses trying to learn more about how the works found their way to the Poindexters; she perused George Poindexter's correspondence for a clue to his motives.
Other Poindexter pieces also went to the Yellowstone Art Center. Many works traveled years ago, but that practice ended because paintings wound up in such homey spots as a grocery store window, Tieken said.
Tieken has no illusion that "The Poindexter Collection of Modern American Artists" is the least bit encyclopedic. "This is a time capsule of what was available in New York from the early 1950s to the early 1960s." she said. The work has a New York center, although artists included also hail from the West Coast and Chicago.
Mainly, though, the work has presence. It offers a quick course in learning about a generation of artists that loved to experiment with paint -- dripping and pulling it, puddling and piling it up with a knife. Paint appears to cascade down the green center of a canvas by Emerson Woelffer, for instance, while Bay Area artist Sonia Gechtoff churned the oil of "Painting No. 1" into a veritable blizzard of feathers.
Artists also appear to be working out technique and style issues. A 1943 untitled Jackson Pollack ink and watercolor piece looks like a sketch pad, with figures, impromptu drawings and one empty corner just begging for drips. Richard Diebenkorn's 1958 "Portrait" certainly is a human figure, but a good chunck of the body lacks definition -- until Dieberkorn gets to a hand that bursts with detail. It is very much a painter's tool.
An early de Kooning "Woman" looks overpowering, but really is about the size of a legal pad. (It is one of four from the painter in the show, a treat in a museum that in February 1996 auctioned its only de Kooning through Christie's. The take was $47,150, for the museum's acquisition fund.)
What also is apparent is that Tieken enjoyed playing detective. When she wrote to Jules Olitski concerning the bright color-field painting "Singular Delight," he responded, she said, "Please send a slide. I forgot I did it." Which wouldn't be too hard to do, with a piece tucked away in the middle of Montana. Now the Poindexter passion for getting -- not making -- is on public walls, a view into an era of experimentation and excitement.
The Poindexter Collection of Modern American Artists, from the Montana Historical Society, curated by Nancy Tieken will be on display at the Denver Art Museum's Close Range Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway from October 18, 1998 through January 10, 1999. (Source: Art & Architecture, by Mary Voelz Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Sunday, 18 Oct 1998 - furnished by Robert Guilinger)
RECOLLECTIONS: Hidden Treasure"The Poindexter Collection of Modern American Masters," on display at the Denver Art Museum from October 1998 through May 16, 1999, in the Close Range Gallery was the brainchild of Montana - born New York commodities broker named George Poindexter. How it wound up at the Montana Historical Society, of all places, and the shameful way it's been treated since make for a ripping yarn.
Poindexter was born in 1900 in Butte, Montana, into a prominent family; his father was a respected lawyer and later a federal judge. He grew up in Montana, moved to New York to attend Columbia University, graduated in 1922 and founded his own business, Commodity Brokers, Inc. Poindexter was a whiz in the commercial world, but he had an interest in painting as well. This was perhaps inspired by his wife, Elinor, who had studied art history at New York's prestigious Finch College.
After World War II, Poindexter took some time off from his business to learn to become an artist. He went to study in Paris with Elinor, but according to show curator, Nancy Tieken, "he was terrible at it." Back in New York, he took a class from abstract artist Jack Tworkov, whom he had known since his college days. "Tworkov suggested that instead of trying to make art, Poindexter should buy it. Nobody was collecting wildly experimental paintings when George started in 1956. This kind of work was available at the time for a small price and right from the source," the curator said.
Though Elinor Poindexter had opened the Poindexter Gallery in 1955 (the year before George started collecting), the curator established through research and interviews that the Poindexter Collection was George's individual creation. Elinor put together her own modernist painting collection, which she donated to the Yellowstone Arts Center in Billings, Montana.
In 1960, George began to cede his collection to the Montana Historical Society, giving an abstract painting in memory of his father. (The gift caused some consternation for his relatives, who had little affection for abstraction.) By 1963, the 100 plus piece collection was ensconced in the historical society in Helena, Montana then Montana's only museum of any kind. Prior to its current appearance at the DAM, it was displayed only twice -- once on the occasion of the gift in 1963 when it traveled statewide, and again in 1965 at the then new Yellowstone Arts Center, the second museum to open in Montana. In the more than thirty intervening years, the Poindexter Collection has been put away -- and that's what makes this current show such a rare, exciting treat.
Poindexter was an adventurous collector, and his choices "provide a snapshot of art on the cusp from the late Fifties and early Sixties," the curator said.
After he gave the collection to the Montana Historical Society in 1963, Poindexter apparently lost interest in it, since correspondence in the files after that time remains unopened. It's unclear why Poindexter suddenly dropped his hobby.
(Source: Extracted from "Hidden Treasure," by Michael Paglia, which appeared in the 22-28 October 1999 "Westwood" section of a Denver paper - furnished by Robert Guilinger)
Elinor FullerNAME-CONFLICT: Elaine
OCCUPATION: 1955, owner of an influential New York art gallery, the Poindexter Gallery.
3864. Raymond Stuart Conger
Raymond Stuart CongerNAME-CONFLICT: Ray Stewart Conger by Charles G.B. Conger
OCCUPATION: Newspaperman
CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Episcopalian
CEMETERY: Liberty (Veteran's) Cemetery, Fresno, CA.
Marion Emily WeldonProblem: Was the first name, Marian or Marion?
OCCUPATION: Teacher
CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Episcopalian
Kazumi SonodaDIVORCE: The marriage of Kazumi Sonoda and Beverly Clare Conger ended in divorce.
3874. Eleanor Stewart Conger
Eleanor Stewart CongerAKA: Ellen Stewart Conger by Charles G.B. Conger; Nellie S. in biographical sketch of her father.
Frederick Goodrich StreetREFERENCE: Baylis Family of Virginia, p. 500
3876. Chauncey Stewart Conger
Chauncey Stewart CongerNAME-CONFLICT: Chauncy Stewart Conger by Charles G.B. Conger
MARRIAGE: 2 Feb 1910 at the First Presbyterian Church in Carmi, [IL], by Reverend J. C. Christie who came all the way from Iowa to officiate for their wedding.
(Source: Carmi Times, Feb 1950, included photos taken at time of marriage and at the time of their 50th Wedding Anniversary - CFA, I, unnumbered page)
BIOGRAPHY:
Chauncey Stewart Conger graduated from high school at Carmi, IL and then attended Illinois College at Jacksonville. Later he graduated from Princeton University, soon thereafter being admitted to the bar.When World War I came, Mr. Conger dropped his law work and entered YMCA work for the benefit of our troops abroad and was stationed in France.
Chauncey Stewart Conger entered the newspaper business in 1920 and remained until 1932. At first he was part owner and editor of the "White County Democrat" and then, upon consolidation with the "Tribune-Times," he became editor of the "Carmi Democrat Tribune." Later he sold his interest to Roy Clippinger, devoting full time to law practice.
During his years in the newspaper business he was elected president of the Illinois State Press Association and the Southern Illinois Editorial Association.
He served as county judge from 1934 to 1942.
Chauncey Stewart and Lena Patrick Conger celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversay in 1960. On display was the Judge's wedding suit and vest, Mrs. Conger's wedding dress and veil, the slippers which she wore, and the handkerchief which she carried.
At the time of his death, Judge Conger was director of the First National Bank, Carmi, IL; director of the Carmi Building and Loan Association; a director in the White County Abstract Company; an elder in the Carmi Presbyterian Church and a charter member, past president and past lieutenant-governor of the Kiwanis Club. He was also a Master Mason.
For sometime, prior to his death, he wrote a personal column, "The Old Rocking Chair," for the "Carmi Times."
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 72 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Lena PatrickBIOGRAPHY:
Lena Patrick Conger's roots were deep in Carmi, Illinois, going back to the 1830's when her great grandfathers, Byrd Linear Patrick and Adam Rankin Logan settled there. Paternal grandfather, Patrick, drove a stagecoach in the early days before he became a businessman. Byrd Patrick's first store was located where the "Times" building stood in 1963. Later he moved his place of business to the site occupied by the American Legion building, known for many years as "Patrick Corner." She was active in church and civic affairs.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 72 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
3879. Wilfred Greene Cogswell
NO_ISSUE: There was no issue of the marriage of Wilfred Greene Cogswell and
Emily Amelia Mott.