Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Conn, Alpheus S. July 31, 1842 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 259
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Alpheus S Conn was born July 31, 1842, in Monongalia 
county, Virginia, now West Virginia, is a son of Isaac Conn 
and Eliza Norris Conn and is of Scotch Irish descent.
    Isaac Conn was born on Georges Creek in 1811 and 
received the limited education of farmers' boys of that day. 
  He remained on the home farm until 1854 when he rented a 
farm of his father and cultivated it for twenty nine years.  
In 1883 he went to Pittsburgh and kept a hotel for one year. 
 In 1884 he removed to Point Marion and bought property.  
Here, on July 3, 1889 he had a stroke of paralysis on the 
left side from which he is slowly recovering.  
    He married Eliza Norris, born 1818, died 1855, and had 
seven children: John I Conn, William E Conn, Amy E Conn, 
Alpheus S Conn, Jacob L Conn, George H Conn, Harriet E Conn. 
 He is an earnest member of the M P church at Stewartstown, 
West Virginia, and is now in the seventy eighth year of his 
age.
    Jacob Conn, paternal grandfather, was born in Fayette 
county, and died in 1864.  He was a son of George Conn, one 
of the pioneer settlers on Georges Creek and one of the 
three Georges from which it is said the township derived its 
name.
    Alpheus S Conn was reared on a farm, received the 
limited school advantages of his time until he was eighteen 
years of age when he engaged with his brother, J I Conn, to 
learn the trade of shoemaker.  But two years of his 
apprenticeship had passed until the Civil War began when he 
enlisted as a volunteer in a company which disbanded before 
doing any service.
    He was afterward drafted, served in Company B, Sixty 
second Pennsylvania Infantry, and was in the battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, where one half of his 
right ear was cut off by a minnie ball.  He was in the 
battles in front of Petersburg, was a prisoner for a few 
minutes at Five Forks, and witnessed Lee's surrender.  From 
the close of the war until 1871 pursued his trade at Point 
Marion, when he removed to Stewartstown, West Virginia.  In 
1881 he sold his Stewartstown property, and removed to his 
present home near Morris Cross Roads.
    He was married on March 10, 1866, to Miss Hannah Crow, 
daughter of Micheal Crow.  They have four children: Charles 
S Conn, taught one term of school; Frank L Conn; Nellie G 
Conn; and Chester A Conn.
    Mr Conn is a republican and has served as inspector of 
elections.  He is a member of Post 180, G A R at Uniontown.  
 He is a good tradesman and reliable citizen, is a member 
and trustee of the M P church, whose membership roll bears 
the names of his wife and two oldest children.

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