4378. Edward Cox Conger
Edward Cox CongerPARENTS: Mason M. Conger and Catherine Murphy
AKA: Edward Cox (Cochs?) Conger
ADOPTION: Edward Conger was legally adopted by Mason M. Conger. His last name was retained as his middle name -- Cochs or Cox. He was the son of John E. Cochs of Newfoundland, who had removed to LaSalle, IL, at which place Edward was adopted.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 132 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)MILITARY: Enlisted in the Civil War from Dallas county, Iowa, in the 2nd Iowa Battery, on 10 May 1864, at the age of 16.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 132 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)OCCUPATION-PUBLIC_SERVICE: He was the County Treasurer of Dallas Co., IA for many years.
RELATIONSHIP: He was an intimate friend of Edwin H. Conger, ex-Congressman and ex-minister to China during the Boxer Rebellion, both being early residents of Dallas county, Iowa.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 132 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Flora HaggardNAME-CONFLICT: Was her surname, Haggart or Haggard? Both listed, in CFA I.
SPOUSE: Flora Haggard was the 2nd spouse of Edward Cox Conger.
7999. Byrle Catherine Conger
Byrle Catherine CongerCOMMENT: Not found on the SSDI
Charles HutchinsCHILDREN: Five children
8000. Mary Carol Conger
Mary Carol CongerAKA: Probably called, Carol
Van M. StormCHILDREN: 3 children
8005. Blanche Conger
Blanche CongerPARENTS: Cyrus Mason Conger and Catherine Chestnutwood
NO_ISSUE: There was no issue of the marriage of Burgess Phillips and Blanche
Conger.
8009. Henry Conger
Herny CongerNEVER_MARRIED: (CFA II, p. 709)
SSN:
Individual: Conger, Henry
Social Security #: 094-07-6760
Issued in: New York
Birth date: Apr 2, 1893
Death date: Mar 1969
Residence code: New York
ZIP Code of last known residence: 13660
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Madrid, New York
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-K, Ed. 7, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Nov 10, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.54149.107]
4412. Horace Samuel Conger
Horace Samuel CongerOCCUPATION-REFERENCE: He had a drugstore in Kasota, MN in 1895. In 1898 he sold out and went to Alaska. He became an artic explorer -- statue of him in Alaska. He returned to open a drugstore in Ogilvie, MN in 1902. His diary about Alaska was published under the title, "In Search of Gold."
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 117 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
BIOGRAPHY: "In Search of Gold - The Alaska Journals of Horace S. Conger - 1898-1899"Marlene Conger Holeski and her daughter, Jean, have published the journals of her grandfather, Horace S. Conger. It was published in 1983 by the Alaksa Geographic Society, Bop 4-EEE, Anchorage, Alaska 99509, from where copies may be obtained for $9.95. Marlene has granted permission to use the picture and excerpts of one of the letters. Her father is (Martin) Clifford Conger.
Horace Samuel Conger, a 34-year old pharmacist from Minnesota, reacted to the exciting news of the Klondike gold discovery in a manner characteristic of thousands of others; he gave up a good position to seek his fortune in the wilderness regions of the Far North.
He was born on a farm in Franklin Co., NY on 20 Jun 1863. When he was 10 his father drowned in the St. Lawrence River, and one year later his mother died. He then went to live with relatives in Elyria, OH and at the age of 16 he was sent to live with a bachelor uncle on a ranch in Utah. He received his education at the California State Normal School at San Jose and then returned to the ranch. After his uncle's death in 1889, Horace went East, visiting his brother, Leonard E. in Mora, MN. [Note: The uncle he lived with was probably his uncle, Horace Conger, whose date of death is listed in CFA as, 5 Nov 1889, with no place specifed. His other uncles didn't die in 1889. REH] In 1892 Horace joined Leonard in the pharmaceutical business. Two years later Horace married Elizabeth Blank, a teacher in the Mora Public Schools. The brothers then dissolved the partnership and Leonard opened his own drugstore at Kasota, MN. In early 1898 he sold his business to finance a trip to Alaska. During his 19-month absense, his wife and two children (Lila and Clifford) returned to Mora to be near relatives.
On 10 Apr 1899 he sprained his right ankle. He managed to hobble about a quarter of a mile, but became weak and exhausted and fell by the wayside. A man found him, placed him on a sled and took him into camp nearly frozen to death. His ankle was badly swollen and inflammed. He treated himself with hot water compress.
Since they were moving the camp every three days he had to be hauled on a sled, with the mercury 20 degrees below. He was pulled a distance of over 50 miles.
He wrote, "On account of improper treatment, exposure, and anxiety, scurvy set in and for 3 months I battled with the grim monster. Not on account of remedies, kindness and good care (for I had none) do I attribute my recovery, but to my prayers and faith in Christ Jesus. He alone carried me over the yawning chasm of death and preserved my life. I managed to move around the tent with the use of a cane and crutch. Had to wait on myself. When my leg was black and swollen to bursting above the knee, and shooting pains in the abdomen and back, the most critical stage, my two partners went off prospecting for a week and left me alone, knowing I might die any hour. Such is life in the interior of Alaska. Man becomes a fiend and a wild beast in his base endeavors to grab on to the filthy lucre."
He claimed he did not take more than $20 from the ground all the time he was there. Though he failed to find gold in Alaska, he achieved success later in Minnesota as a businessman and civic leader. He returned to Minnesota on 19 Sep 1899, in broken health and nearly penniless, and found employment in his brother's drugstore until opening his own at Ogilvie in 1902.
(Source: Conger Confab, p. 610 - furnished by Robert Guilinger)
Elizabeth W. BlancAKA: Elizabeth Blank, CFA I, p. 233 & 371 & CFA II, p. 166. Elizabeth W. Blanc, CFA II, p. 117.
OCCUPATION: School teacher in Mora Public Schools, Mora, MN at the time of her marriage.
4413. Leonard E. Conger
Leonard E. CongerRELATIONSHIP: Leonard E. Conger and his wife, Myrtle Conger, were 2nd cousins. Their common ancestor was Asher Conger.
OCCUPATION: Pharmacist and had a business at Mora, MN
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II,p. 160 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Julia BrugierRELATIONSHIP: Julia Brugier was a granddaughter of Sioux Chief, War Eagle, whose daughter, Dawn (Anpao) married French trapper, Theophile Brugier.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 417 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
8025. Rose Sybil Conger
Rose Sybil CongerQUESTION: Is this the Sybil Conger, b. 5 Oct 1883 in Wagner, SD and d. 26 Mar 1974 who married, Benedict Patrick Vandal, b. 1881, d. 1940? Their son, Arthur Benedict Vandal, b. 13 Jan 1914, d. 9 Mar 1971. The couple had 7 children.
Reuben Kemp OdellOCCUPATION: Rancher, surveyor, storekeeper
8031. Arthur Lyle Conger
Arthur Lyle CongerCOMMENT: Not found on the SSDI
Ella Minor FurmeisterBIRTH-QUESTION: In what county did the birth take place?
4427. Clarence Conger
Clarence CongerERROR-RELATIONSHIP: Clarence and Horace Conger were not twins as listed in CFA I. Apparently born on same date in different years.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 717 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Anna MartinNAME-CONFLICT: Anna Martin in CFA I, p. 74 & 238. Anna Kinckt in CFA II, p. 194
RESIDENCES: Probably lived in Clarkdale, AZ