1409. Stephen Dorris Conger
Stephen Dorris CongerMARRIAGE: Stephen Conger and Lucy J. Gordon were married on 8 Mar 1835 at Callaway Co., MO.
(Source: 1820-1840 Missouri Marriage Records, compiled by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry - furnished by Joyce Posey)
3243. Lucinda Conger
Lucinda CongerRELATIONSHIP: Lucinda and Elizabeth Allen Conger were twins.
Susan EakerdSPOUSE: Mrs. Susan Eakerd was the 2nd spouse of Stephen Dorris Conger.
John KingQUESTION: Did John King have a daughter, Emma, born in MO who was age, 20 in
1860? Or, was she the wife of his son, John B. King?
1415. Stephen Hurd
Stephen HurdRESIDENCES-EMIGRATION: Resided at Sparta, NJ he removed to Lafayette, IL
REFERENCE: Listed in Hurd Genealogy, #1278
1445. Lewis Conger
Lewis CongerOCCUPATION: From boyhood until 1850 he assisted his father in the mill and store and to him must be given some of the credit for the success of the enterprise.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, 361 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
1449. Thomas Conger
Thomas CongerPROBLEM-BIRTH: A birth date of Feb 1803, Rockaway, NJ has been listed. CFA II, p. 218 lists, 18 Dec 1802, Rockaway, Morris Co., NJ.
EMIGRATION: It is thought that he left Ontario county, New York between 1820 and 1830, removing first to Willoughby, Lake, Ohio, and from there to Cleveland, Ohio where his brother, James Lockwood Conger, was practicing law, and also where Hanford Conger, a second cousin (son of Ephraim, 1760, and Experience (Eastman) Conger) was living. It is thought that at this time he received his education in law.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 487 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)RESIDENCES: The couple lived in Michigan until 1849.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 218 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)EMIGRATION: By Mrs. H.D. Lough
Thomas Conger and his wife went to California about 1842 in a prairie schooner. He died in Painesville, Nevada County.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 112 & 487 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)OCCUPATION: It is said that he was a Judge. (CFA I, p. 487)
PROBLEM-DEATH: A death place of Painsville, Nevada Co., CA has also been listed. CFA II, p. 218 lists, 11 Feb 1880, Sacramento, CA.
RESIDENCES: "of San Francisco" (CFA I, p. 487)
3270. Hannah Cornelia Conger
Hannah Cornelia CongerAKA: Cornelia Conger (CFA I, p. 487)
John Percival JonesSPOUSE: John Percival Jones was the 2nd husband of Hannah Cornelia Conger.
OCCUPATION: U.S. Senator of Nevada (CFA I, p. 487)
BIOGRAPHY: JONES, John Percival (1829-1912) Biographical Information
Senate Years of Service: 1873-1895; 1895-1901; 1901-1903
Party: Republican; Silver; RepublicanJONES, John Percival, a Senator from Nevada; born at `The Hay,' Herefordshire, England, January 27, 1829; immigrated the same year to the United States with his parents, who settled in the northern part of Ohio; attended the public schools in Cleveland, Ohio; moved to California and engaged in mining and farming in Trinity County; sheriff of the county; member, State senate 1863-1867; moved to Gold Hill, Nev., in 1868; engaged in mining; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1873; reelected in 1879, 1885, 1891, and 1897 and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1903; declined to be a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and Forty-seventh through Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Epidemic Diseases (Fifty-third through Fifty-seventh Congresses); resumed his former business activities; retired to his home in Santa Monica, Calif.; died in Los Angeles, Calif., November 27, 1912; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Bauer, John E. "Early Days and California Years of John Percival Jones, 1849-1867." Southern California Quarterly 44 (June 1962): 97-131; Schlup, Leonard. "Nevada's Doctrinaire Senator: John P. Jones and the Politics of Silver in the Golden Age." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 36 (Winter 1993): 246-62.
(Source: U.S. Senate Biographical file online)
3271. Charles Cuthbert Conger
Charles Cuthbert CongerDIVORCE: The marriage of Charles Cuthbert Conger and Pauline Thayer ended in divorce on 26 Feb 1870.
OCCUPATION: Member of the California legislature (CFA I, p. 487)
Rosalie LoerderSPOUSE: Rosalie Loerder was the 2nd spouse of Charles Cuthbert Conger.
1450. James Lockwood Conger
James Lockwood CongerPARENTS: David Beeman Conger and Hannah Ferrin Lockwood
BIOGRAPHY: CONGER, James Lockwood, 1805-1876
CONGER, James Lockwood, a Representative from Michigan; born in Trenton, N.J., February 18, 1805; moved to New York in 1809 with his parents, who settled in Canandaigua, Ontario County; attended the district schools and Canandaigua Academy; studied medicine; moved to Lancaster, Ohio, in 1822; taught school for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Lancaster, Ohio; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and continued the practice of law from 1826 to 1837, when he moved to Macomb County, Mich., and laid out the town of Belvidere; engaged in banking and mercantile pursuits until 1850; moved to Mount Clemens, Mich.; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852; resumed his former business pursuits; owing to ill health retired from active business pursuits; died in St. Clair, St. Clair County, Mich., April 10, 1876; interment in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present)
RESIDENCES-BIOGRAPHY:
It has not been determined when James Lockwood Conger left New Jersey. He practiced law in Cleveland and later removed to Michigan where he also practiced law. In 1852, he was elected and served as a member of the 32nd U.S. Congress, as a Free Soil Whig. The Congressional Biographical Record, page 467, also confirms this with the following notice, "James L. Conger, of Mount Clemens, Michigan, said to have been born in New Jersey, was a representative in the 32nd Congress as a Free Soil Whig."
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 259-260 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
BIBLE:
I recently (prior to March 2001) purchased two Family Bibles at an estate sale in South Carolina in hopes of finding an interested descendant of the family. I was told the woman of the estate inherited them and other family heirlooms from her aunt in Alabama several years ago.The first Bible was published in 1822 and is in fairly good shape and bound together. The oldest entry in this Bible is that of Ezra Clark b. May 27, 1766. Ezra was originally of Vermont and moved to Ohio in the early 1800s. His daughter, Paulina B. Clark married James Lockwood Conger.
The second Bible was published in 1842 and inside the front cover is inscribed "Presented to Helen E. Conger Dec. 25, 1843 By her affectionate father James L. Conger of Belvidere Mich". This Bible is not in the best condition but is full of newspaper clippings dating to 1842. There are also some lose hand written documents relating to the family history. The recorded family record is also full of information. Other surnames that are in this Bible include Lough and Waggoner. All of these familes were in Michigan and Ohio.
I believe both Bibles were passed down through the Waggoner family who moved to Alabama. [Note: The Bibles probably belonged to Mary Louise (Lough) Waggoner a granddaughter of James Lockwood Conger. Richard E. Henthorn]
If any one can prove they are a descendant of these familes and is intersted in obtaining the Bibles please contact me at my e-mail address.
(Written by: Charles R. Robbins; chrobbins@infoave.net)
Pauline Belvidue ClarkNAME-CONFLICT: Middle name is also listed as, Belledue, in CFA I, p. 760.
FATHER: The father of Pauline Clark was Ezra Clark. He was originally from Vermont and moved to Ohio in the early 1800's.
1451. David B. Conger
David B. CongerBIOGRAPHY:
David B. Conger removed from Canadaigua, Ontario, New York to Willoughbe, Lake, Ohio, where his brother, Thomas, was known to have been living. Then he also went to Cleveland, Ohio where his brother, James Lockwood Conger, was practicing law, and then he and his parents and brother, Thomas, moved to Mount Clemens, [Michigan] where his father died about 1839. Not much is known of his further movements or the place of his marriage.In 1848, he was living at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. From here he apparently moved to Janesville, Wis., where we find that one 1 June 1861, at the age of 47, he enrolled and was assigned to Co. B, 8th Wis Inf of which he was elected Captain. This regiment was known as the Eagle Regiment. He served a little more than one year, and on 23 June 1862 he resigned as Captain.
It is not known when David Sr. went to Grand Haven, Michigan, where his son, Charles Eugene, was living.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 112 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
Clarissa DeckerRELATIONSHIP: Her two sisters were the first two wives sealed to Brigham Young.
[Note: No source citation. On 13 Aug 2010 I looked at the make-up of the Isaac Decker family in a family history on the Internet. There is no evidence to support the statement that this Clarissa Decker, who married David B. Conger, was a sister-in-law of Brigham Young. As a matter of fact the two sisters married to Brigham Young were named, Lucy and Clarissa Decker and as I understand it, they weren't the first two wives sealed to Brigham Young. In my opinion this relationship statement, made by Mrs. Leonard, is just another instance of genealogical wishful thinking. REH]
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 113 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
3279. Charles Eugene Conger
Charles Eugene CongerRESIDENCES: Grand Haven, MI
RESIDENCES: He was "of the Lakes." (CFA I, p. 112)
3282. David Ballard
DEATH: Only son, died of Yellow Fever in New York.