Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Conn, Isaac P. January 5, 1839 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 257
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Isaac P Conn was born January 5, 1839, near Anderson 
Cross Roads, Fayette county, Penna, and is of German and 
Scotch Irish parentage. He is the son of Jacob Conn Sr and 
Sarah Weltner Conn.  His father was born on Georges Creek, 
Fayette county, Penna, December 5, 1811.  He was brought up 
on the farm and attended the subscription schools of his 
day; he acquired a fair education, and was considered a good 
scribe.
    He was married April 3, 1837, when he rented a farm and 
began life on his own account.  He remained on this farm for 
five years; then he rented a farm on the "Forks of the 
Cheat," and remained on this farm for ten years when he 
bought a farm of his own of 160 acres adjoining, and removed 
there.  He has since added 120 acres to his farm, has of 
late built a new house and barn, is very comfortably 
situated, and has attained enough of this world's goods to 
enable him to live with ease and comfort the remainder of 
his life.  He is a staunch democrat, a good citizen, and a 
member of the Baptist church at the "Forks of Cheat," West 
Virginia.
    Mr Conn's mother was born February 29, 1814.  She is the 
mother of eleven children, seven of whom are still living.  
She is living at the age of seventy six years, is a member 
of the same church as her husband and of her children.
    Mr Conn's grandfather was born on Georges Creek, Fayette 
county, was a farmer and moved to Ohio 1833 where he 
continued to farm until his death. He was a good citizen and 
a religious man.
    The great grandfather of Isaac P Conn came to Fayette 
county at an early day and settled on Georges Creek, where 
he took a "tomahawk claim" on a tract of land containing 
four hundred acres.  He was one of the earliest blacksmiths 
of the county.  At one time he fought with a man by the name 
of Powell for fifty acres of land and won the fight and the 
land.
    Isaac P Conn grew up on the farm till he was eighteen 
years of age. He attended the common schools; though his 
advantages for education were limited, he became a fair 
scholar.  He remained on the home farm until 1879 when he 
removed to a farm of 163 acres he had previously bought in 
Springhill township and where he now resides.  Sixty five 
acres of his land is underlaid with coal.
    His farm is in a good state of cultivation, shows the 
care he has bestowed upon it, and also is proof that Mr Conn 
is an excellent farmer. He deals considerably in live stock.
    January 9, 1879, he was married to Miss Arilda Lyons, 
daughter of Joseph Lyons, deceased.  She is a member of the 
Lutheran church while Mr Conn is a member of the Baptist 
church at the "Forks of Cheat. "  In politics Mr Conn is a 
prohibition democrat.

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