In a message dated 3/2/99 5:08:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: You would think that now that I'm a gray haired old woman and no longer an honest blonde I could get my act together.Here's the URL. Sorry ! <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/genkin.htm">Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness</A> Sorry Ley << Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Movement a way to find what you need in any county of the United States at cost- just pass it on! >>
1. Directory of the Province of Ontario - 1857 [with a Gasetteer] by Wilson. #1 - O'CONNOR: James - London - Middlesex - carpenter, anne St. James - Richmond - Carleton - Waggonmaker John - Ottawa - Carleton - Tavern, Nicholas St. John - Ottawa - carleton - Carpenter, Bolton st. (This is not the whole record only what I asked for) 2. Marriage Bonds of Ontario [1803-1834] Margaret O'CONNOR m. John DRUMMOND, both of Bytown - 1834 - pg 267 #3286. (only O'Connor listed)
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Movement a way to find what you need in any county of the United States at cost- just pass it on! Welcome to Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness. This movement was begun by the Coordinators and researchers of the Stewart County, Tennessee TnGenweb site, but it is a movement for genealogists everywhere...and one we hope will grow very rapidly. Basically, it is not a great deal different from what internet researchers do every single day in great unselfish acts...sharing of information...BUT it has one decided difference. THE VOLUNTEERS OF THIS MOVEMENT ARE AGREEING ONCE PER MONTH TO EITHER VIDEOTAPE CEMETERIES (Homeplaces, etc.) OR DO LOOK-UPS OF INFORMATION IN THE COUNTY or area of a COUNTRY (IF OTHER THAN U.S.A.) THEY LIVE WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE ANCESTRAL TIES. Because the idea is that a person can spare one time per month to go out into the area they live to unselfishly provide information to another far from home, this makes volunteering and giving of oneself much easier-it also means that if we can obtain one person living in each county of the United States, as well as folks from other countries, to volunteer for this once per month, our odds of obtaining what we need anywhere we need to look go up tremendously! Information for Potential Volunteers
A very kind person named Elaine on another on my mail lists made the offer to look up names 1891 who owned land in Framingham MA. I requested our surname so I could pass on to you folks!!! I will forward the O'Connors when I receive. Linda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello..... Due to the response.......... The details to the land size owned by each individual will simply state 'land' if you would like the exact description, please ask....... If the surnames is to numerous then I will supply the person(s) first name. If one fits let me know and I will forward the full information. If you want all listed that is fine but let me know and please be patient....... {PP = Total Personal property, RP = Total Real Property} Good Luck! Elaine Framingham Assessed Valuation May 1, 1891 *Ward 1, Framingham Centre* CONNORS, Jeremiah, Brennan house 900, land 300. RP $1200. CONNORS, Bart, Estate of, house and barn 450, land 550. RP $1000. *Ward 2, Saxonville* CONNOR, Michael, house 1400, barn 200, land 360. RP $1960. *Ward 3, South Framingham* CONNORS, Jerry, Estate of, land 140. RP$140. ******************** .1910 *Precinct 3* [No CONNER,CONNOR(s) Found] ******************** .. 1916 *Precinct 2* CONNORS, Patrick J., Water St., house 400, land 100. RP $500. *Precinct 3* CONNOR, Etta B., 6 Sewall St., house 1500, barn 100, lot 450. RP $2050. ******************** .1926 [Alpha listing] CONNER, Etta B., 20 Sewall St., house 2400, barn 200, land 800, land rear Sewall St. 600. RP $4000. CONNER, William W., 20 Sewall St., PP $50. CONNOR, Bert E., 3 Hastings St., PP $ 100. CONNORS, Helena C., 115 Cedar St., house 4700, land 700. RP $5400. CONNORS, John J., 116 Concord St., PP $ 550. CONNORS, Mary C., Milford MA, house 2500, 470 & 472 Waverley St land 1000. RP $3500. CONNORS, Patrick J., 459 Edgell Rd., house 800, garage 100, land 300. PP $ 50, RP $1200.
Hannorah (nee) O'Connor (d. 1943/4, Irvington, NJ) followed her brothers Eugene and Cornelius to the US from County Cork in + - 1873. She married Arthur O'Connor (d. 1900/1) in Bronx, NY around 1885. They had approx. 10 children, a few died very young. The names I know are: Cornelius (d. Upstate NY), Arthur, Eugene, Margaret (married Schwartz, d. in Verona, NJ + - 1930, one daughter Francis), and my grandmother Eleanor (b. 1888, d. 1970, married John Payton). Thanks for anyone that can help with additional information! SGM Paul Nash ARNG, CASCOM Training Directorate DSN 539-1126, (804) 765-1126 FAX 539-1418 Email: [email protected]
>I am looking for information on a Richard Connor(s) who was born in Dundalk, Louth Co, Ireland on 10 November 1819 (Per naturalization Application). He immigrated to Milbridge, Maine in 1836, do not know the port of entry (possibly Canada). His father's name was Peter and his mother Alice (?). Richard married Susan Cain in Milbridge on 22 December 1844 and had 10 children. He died on 24 Feb 1896 in Milbridge, Maine. Seeking information on Peter and any siblings. >>> >>>Thanks for any information. > > Bruce Connors [email protected] Researching the Families of: Connor(s)/ Strout / Cheyne and allied families "An fhirinne in aghaidh an tSaoil"
This is a file which used to be online on a site owned by Shawn Griffith (I hope I spelled that name right), called the Upper Canada Genealogy Pages. Thanks to someone who downloaded it while it was online and sent it to me, it is now available here. Shawn referred to this as an 1837 census of Toronto. I believe I now have the proper title - it is not a census, it is the Toronto and Home District Directory, 1837. I was also surprised, when I read the readme file, to find that this document was put into database format by Barry Taylor of Victoria Genealogical Society in British Columbia. Thanks for your work Barry, and for letting me put this info online! The Home District is the old name for this area, and it covers not only York County but also most of Simcoe, Peel and Ontario (now Durham) counties. Surname Given Name Lot # & Concession Township Soundex Remarks O'Connor Daniel - - Toronto City O256 Laborer, March St. O'Connor John 1 2 Orillia North O256 O'Connor Michael 2 24 Albion O256 O'Connor Michael - - Toronto City O256 Inn, Market Lane O'Connor Patrick 7 12 Sunnidale O256
"Beginning about March 1st, possibly a few days later, the LDS Church will release a beta test of Family Search on the Internet for about a 3 week trial basis at: http://www.familysearch.org (Keep checking until they actually have it up and running.) They would like everyone to try it out and respond! After the short beta testing they will take it off the Internet in order to fix any problems." Everybody, keep going back if only for a few minutes. If they get enough people using this they will consider keeping the info on. Ley K. O'Connor Listowner
or go to http://www.boston.com/globe -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 9:17 AM Subject: IRISH STAMPS UNVEILED >The Boston Globe >Saturday, February 27, 1999 > >IRISH STAMPS UNVEILED > >--Stephen O'Connor of An Post, the Irish postal service, joined Rep. J. Joseph >Moakley, Cardinal Bernard Law, and Max Kennedy in Boston for yesterday's >unveiling of commemorative stamps paying tribute to Irish-Americans. One >version will be available in Ireland and the other in the United States. Both >stamps depict a ship in a harbor. Millions of Irish journeyed across the >Atlantic to escape Ireland's potato famine, which began in 1845. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >For anyone who can get access to this newspaper, it is Metro-Region, Section >B, Page 8. There is a picture of the individuals mentioned with a large >version of the stamp. The words IRISH EMIGRATION appear on the stamp. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >Have a good weekend! >Linda > >
I order stamps thru the post office's "order by mail" system. The famine stamp is available already and I put in an order. Hope it will arrive soon!
The Boston Globe Saturday, February 27, 1999 IRISH STAMPS UNVEILED --Stephen O'Connor of An Post, the Irish postal service, joined Rep. J. Joseph Moakley, Cardinal Bernard Law, and Max Kennedy in Boston for yesterday's unveiling of commemorative stamps paying tribute to Irish-Americans. One version will be available in Ireland and the other in the United States. Both stamps depict a ship in a harbor. Millions of Irish journeyed across the Atlantic to escape Ireland's potato famine, which began in 1845. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For anyone who can get access to this newspaper, it is Metro-Region, Section B, Page 8. There is a picture of the individuals mentioned with a large version of the stamp. The words IRISH EMIGRATION appear on the stamp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have a good weekend! Linda
[email protected] wrote: > > Subject: > > OCONNOR-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 39 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Connor from changes [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from OCONNOR-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Connor from changes > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 03:44:06 EST > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > This came thru another list, thought I'd pass it on. As you can see, their nam > went thru a lot of changes including Connor. Please contact Donna direct if > you have any of these people in your family. > Ley > > Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 20:10:02 -0600 > From: "Donna DeVoe" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: COLLINS COLYER CONINE CONKLIN CONKLING CONLIUS CONNOR > > The following married DeVoes. If you can connect to any,e-mail me > privately. > MARY COLLINS m. James DeVoe James b. 1795 > MARGARET COLYER m. Daniel DeVoe, Aug. 24, 1714, Bronx, NY > DEBORAH CONINE m. William DeVoe Jan. 2, 1815, Mont. Co. NY > CHARITY CONKLIN m. William DeVoe in Albany, NY > JEHIEL CONKLIN m. Rebecca DeVoe, Ap. 9, 1825, Bronx, NY > PHOEBE CONKLIN m. Genge DeVoe Genge b. 1801 in Bronx, Fordham > MATHEW CONKLING m. Elizabeth in 1852 > ELIZABETH CONLIUS m. Frederick in 1810 > REBECCA CONLIUS m. John DeVoe New Rochelle NY > ANNATIJI CONNOR m. John DeVoe NY > EUGENE CONNOR m. Anna DeVoe in 1868 Good evening! If you have a Thomas O'CONNOR, who married a Mary GAINES in the early 1800s, I'd really appreciate hearing from you. Many thanks! Fran Weeks
Greetings -- Does anyone have information regarding: John J. O'Connor b. 1876 (twin sister,name unknown) in Meath? --son of Daniel O'Connor & Jane Robinson (said to have run a public house in Dublin) -- married Catherine (Kate) Agnes Barry (of Ballyduff, Cork)10/19/14 in Brookline MA sons: Robert, John, Joseph, Daniel Thanks! Mary Anne (O'Connor) Wenig
CONNER, JOHN EDWIN (1883-1989). John Edwin Conner, teacher, college dean, and author, the son of Harriet (Williamson) and William Trustan Conner, was born on November 21, 1883, at Field Creek, Llano County, Texas. Shortly after he was born, the family moved to Pontotoc, Mason County, where they lived until 1904 (except for the years 1888 to 1890, spent in Santo, Palo Pinto County). His father ran a general store, farmed, and occasionally built houses; his mother was postmistress at Pontotoc. In 1891 or 1892 a school district was formed at Pontotoc with William Conner as the first school board president. >From 1890 onward, John Conner worked on the family farm and also did a variety of other work, learning at one point about setting type. During his youth his recreation included attending Mollie Baileyqv shows and playing baseball. With the shortened and sometimes missing school years at that time it was not until May 1904 that he graduated from high school, first in a class of two. In 1904 it was required that Pontotoc High School graduates pass the state examination for the first-grade teacher's certificate. During Conner's last two or three years at Pontotoc, the superintendent was E. C. Broyles, greatgrandfather of the William Broyles who later edited Texas Monthly.qv Broyles had a profound influence on Conner, exciting his interest in history and teaching him how to write clearly and persuasively. Above all, he taught him how to edit his own work. Broyles, in addition to his other work, published more than one smalltown newspaper, and in the early summer of 1904 he hired Conner to run for him the newspaper Broyles owned in Eden. Before the next year, Conner took a job in a one-room school at Katemcy at sixty-five dollars a month for five months. During the next two school years, he taught at two other oneroom schools. In 1907 he went to Eden as principal and teacher of a threeroom school, and in 1908 he became high school principal and teacher in Eldorado. There were eleven grades in Eldorado, and for the first time he found it feasible to teach only some, rather than all of the subjects the students were supposed to master. There were normal schools at several places by 1904, and Conner attended two of them (at Denton and at San Marcos). In 1911 he graduated from Southwest Texas Normal. On August 27, 1911, he married Fannie Johnson; they had three children. During the 1911-12 school year he was principal of the high school at Ozona, and in the fall of 1913 he became superintendent of schools at Sanderson, where he remained until 1918. The years at Sanderson were the years of Francisco (Pancho) Villa,qv and an unofficial militia was formed to defend the town, of which Conner was a leader. In the fall of 1919 Conner left Sanderson to become superintendent at Marfa, a somewhat larger and more prosperous place than Sanderson. Beginning in 1917 he taught in several summer sessions and teacher's institutes at Sul Ross Normal in Alpine. He became acquainted with Robert Bartow Cousins,qv who had been appointed president of the new college to be built in Kingsville, and in 1923 Cousins offered Conner a job there. To qualify for the position Conner entered the University of Texas in June 1923. In May 1924 he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and in August of that year was granted an A.B. degree in American history; his M.A. was granted in 1927. During the 1924-25 school year he was superintendent at Odessa. Conner and his family arrived in Kingsville on June 1, 1925, and South Texas State Teachers College (later Texas A&M University at Kingsville) opened on June 7 of that year. This school had been planned by the legislature in 1911 as a source of teachers for the local Mexican-American population. Cousins and his staff faced a formidable task in starting the new college. There were few potential students. More than half the population of the area spoke little English, and few of the English speakers had finished high school. What students there were had trouble getting to Kingsville, as there were almost no paved roads and the only public transportation was by rail, which had inconvenient schedules for local routes. The new college also at first had few facilities and a library with fewer than 1,000 volumes. Conner became engaged at once in recruiting students and was soon acting as publicity man and lobbyist-producing press releases, contacting school superintendents, and approaching legislators. He made himself available as a speaker all over the area and talked to graduating classes, to Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions clubs, to Boy Scout groups, and to parent-teacher associations. Robert J. Klebergqv and J. K. Northway of the King Ranchqv had pushed strongly for the college to be located in Kingsville and were disappointed that graduates of the college were not going to be useful to the ranch's plans. Northway in particular began to push for a change in the purpose of the college so he could get more technical help from its graduates. In 1929 the school became the Texas College of Arts and Industries, and Conner became dean of the college. In the next ten years he taught classes and promoted the college, helped develop a museum, and struggled to get approval for the college from the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. As early as the summer of 1925 people were bringing to Conner's office collectible materials, primarily, at first, World War Iqv weapons. Very soon the materials became more diversified, and from 1928 onward Conner sought out materials, specimens, and contributions for the museum. After World War IIqv he no longer had administrative responsibilities, and could spend more of his time on the collection. During the 1940s his vision gradually began to fail. While he was on leave from the campus during 1942-45, he became the historian at the quartermaster depot at Fort Sam Houston. He completed his first published book, The Centennial Record of the San Antonio Service Forces Depot (1845-1945) in 1945. He retired from the university in May 1954, whereupon he served as the director of the school's museum until 1964. He also began to write a history of Texas, intended for public school children. Your Texas and Mine appeared in 1961 and was followed by The Flags of Texas in 1964. Though he was engaged in writing, his museum collecting continued until 1967, when he left the area for a time. In 1976 the collection was moved to its current location and dedicated as the John E. Conner Museum.qv Conner continued to write until the end of his life, though his eyesight prevented him from rewriting or editing his writings. His daughterinlaw pulled some of his reminiscences together into a book, A Great While Ago, published in 1983. On his 100th birthday Conner was honored with a encomium from the governor, which was printed in the Congressional Record. In September 1988 he was the oldest living graduate of the University of Texas and the oldest living holder of a Phi Beta Kappa key. He died on September 1, 1989, in Corpus Christi at the age of 105 and was buried at Bellevue Cemetery. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Victoria Advocate, September 3, 1989. William J. Conner
CONNER, JOHN COGGSWELL (1842-1873). John Coggswell Conner, congressman, was born in Noblesville, Indiana, on October 14, 1842. In 1861 he received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He withdrew soon afterwards, enlisted in the United States Army, and obtained a commission. He served during the Civil Warqv as a first lieutenant in the Sixty-third Indiana Infantry. After the war he unsuccessfully sought a seat in the Indiana House of Representatives. He rejoined the army in 1866 and this time received a captain's commission in the Forty-first Regiment, United States Infantry. He served in Texas with that unit until November 29, 1869. Between 1866 and 1869 he settled in Sherman. In 1869 he campaigned successfully in Texas as a Democrat for a congressional seat. Described by the New York Times as a "Democratic carpetbagger from Indiana," Conner was the lone Democrat representing Texas in the state's first congressional delegation since the Civil War. He was reelected in 1871 to the Forty-second Congress, defeating his Republican opponent with over 75 percent of the vote. When Conner arrived in Washington his right to be seated in Congress received a strong challenge from a number of House Republicans. John P. Shank of Indiana moved that Conner be denied his seat until the House Committee on Elections reviewed the legitimacy of his campaign. Benjamin Butler, Republican from Massachusetts, supported Shank's motion and introduced evidence that claimed Conner had conducted himself less than honorably as an army officer in Texas. Shank's motion was defeated, and Conner took his seat. Predictably, once in Congress Conner opposed Republican-initiated Reconstructionqv legislation designed to assist freedmen, such as enforcement acts for the Fifteenth Amendment. On the other hand he supported economic measures that benefited his region and frequently found himself aligned with the Texas Republicans on such matters as currency, railroads, and tariffs. Relations with the Indians occupied much of Conner's congressional attention. He sought greater protection from the Indians on the Texas frontier, charging that while the government honored its treaties with Indians, the Indians failed to abide by the agreements. In his opinion Indians were an obstacle to progress, and as a result he opposed any government policies designed to aid them. Because of a lingering illness Conner did not seek renomination for the Forty- third Congress in 1872. He died in Washington on December 10, 1873, and is buried in the Old Cemetery, Noblesville, Indiana. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1971.
CONNOR, WILLIAM OTT (1852-1934). William Ott Connor, financier, son of William J. and Julia C. (Hines) Connor, was born in Hamburg, Tennessee, on October 8, 1852, and moved to Texas with his mother and other children from Corinth, Mississippi, in 1859, after his father died. They settled in Jefferson. After moving to Dallas Connor became a salesman for Sanger Brothers (see SANGER, ALEXANDER) in 1878 and in 1881 became manager, a position he held until April 1, 1920, at which time he became president of the Republic National Bank. He served as first president of the trade league that helped to build Dallas into a wholesale center by inducing jobbers to pay for transportation of merchants to the city. Connor was the first mayor of Highland Park, a member of the first park board in Dallas, chairman of the board of directors of Republic National Bank and Trust Company, and a director of many Dallas corporations. He married Lula J. Mays on June 8, 1882, and they had two children. He later married Hattie Crowdus, and they had one child. Connor died on February 5, 1934. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dallas Morning News, February 6, 1934. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County (Chicago: Lewis, 1892; rpt., Dallas: Walsworth, 1976). Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.
CONNER, LINCOLN GUY (1860-1920). Lincoln Guy Conner, rancher and founder of Canyon, was born on March 4, 1860, near Boonville, Missouri. Earlier, his father had established a flour mill, and the community that grew up around it was known as Conner's Mill. After suffering severe economic losses during the Civil Warqv the family moved to Grayson County, Texas. There Conner met Queenie Victoria Younger, whom he married on January 19, 1884. They made their home on a 600-acre tract in Clay County near Bellevue, east of Henrietta, where Conner had previously built a small herd of cattle. In the summer of 1887 the Conners moved their 350 cattle into the Panhandle,qv stopping first at Quitaque, near the future site of Plainview. On Christmas Day 1887 Conner surveyed and located section 34, block B5 in Randall County, near the T Anchor Ranchqv headquarters. He bought this land from the state for three dollars an acre on April 2, 1888, and constructed a half-dugout (see DUGOUT) from logs hauled from nearby Palo Duro Canyon.qv Here he established a general store and post office, and in the spring of 1889 he laid out the townsite of Canyon City. When Randall County was organized on July 27, the Conner dugout served as a voting place. Conner's daughter Mamie, the oldest of three children, was the first white child born in the county. To attract settlers to Canyon City, the Conners began donating town lots to anyone willing to built a home or business building. Conner opened the town's first real estate office and gave thirty acres to the Santa Fe Railroad for a depot and cattle pens. He also donated lots for a county courthouse, schools, and churches. In 1891 he built the two-story Victoria Hotel, which he named for his wife. Conner expanded his ranching and real estate ventures steadily over the next two decades and became one of Canyon City's most prosperous citizens. As a charter member of Canyon's First Baptist Church and Masonic lodge, Conner contributed generously to the improvement of his community's civic and educational institutions and sought to have Palo Duro Canyon made a national park (see PALO DURO CANYON STATE SCENIC PARK). His crowning achievement was the donation of forty acres near his residence and $2,000 for the establishment of West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A&M University) in 1910. He died on December 30, 1920, and was buried in Dreamland Cemetery, Canyon. Victoria Conner continued her husband's philanthropic works and was the undisputed leader of the local Pioneer Club until her death on March 27, 1946. Conner Park, Canyon's first city park, is named for the Conners. In 1967 a historical marker was placed on the site of the original Conner dugout in Canyon. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Harley True Burton, "A History of the JA Ranch," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 31 (January 1928). Canyon News November 15, 1928, July 20, 1939, April 4, 1946. Swisher County Historical Commission, Windmilling: 101 Years of Swisher County History (Dallas: Taylor, 1978). Mrs. Clyde W. Warwick, comp., The Randall County Story (Hereford, Texas: Pioneer, 1969).
CONNER, WALTER THOMAS (1877-1952). Walter Thomas (W. T.) Conner, Southern Baptist theologian and professor, son of Philip Orlander and Frances Jane (Monk) Conner, was born at Center (now Rowell), Arkansas, on January 19, 1877. The family moved to the West Texas community of Tebo (now Tye), eight miles west of Abilene, when Walter was fifteen. Because of straitened finances Conner's attendance at the academy of Simmons College (now HardinSimmons University) and Baylor University was intermittent. He received an A.B. degree from Baylor in 1906; in 1908 he received both a Th.B. from Baylor Theological Seminary (which chartered in March 1908 as Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) and an A.M. degree from Baylor University. In order to prepare for a teaching post at Southwestern, Conner matriculated at Rochester Theological Seminary in 1908; he received a B.D. degree there in 1910. He studied at the University of Chicago and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Kentucky, where he received his Th.D. degree in 1916. His thesis was on "Pragmatism and Theology." Baylor University awarded Conner an honorary D.D. degree in 1920. When Southern Baptist Theological Seminary began to award the Ph.D. degree instead of the Th.D., Conner availed himself to the opportunity of upgrading his Th.D. to Ph.D. status with an additional thesis on the topic "The Idea of Incarnation in the Gospel of John" in 1931. Conner was pastor of several churches. He was ordained by Harmony Baptist Church, Caps, Texas, in 1899, where he was serving as pastor. He served as pastor at Baptist churches at Eagle Lake, Rock Island, East Bernard, Blum, Rio Vista, Godley, and Handley. While a student at Rochester, he served as pastor of the Baptist church in Wheatville, New York. He was the first pastor of Seminary Hill Baptist Church (now Gambrell Street Baptist Church) in Fort Worth. In the Southern Baptist Convention, Conner often lectured at conferences and assemblies and spoke at state and national conventions. The Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board utilized him as a counselor and advisor in selecting missionary candidates. Conner's enduring legacy to Southern Baptist life lies in his thirty-nine-year teaching career at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He joined Southwestern in 1910, when the school moved from Waco to Seminary Hill (now in Fort Worth). In the classroom he endeavored to make theology practical rather than speculative; in the faculty his recommendations for prospective teachers were tantamount to administrative approval; and in the administration his long tenure provided continuity from the first president to the third. Systematic theology was Conner's main responsibility, and he soon distinguished himself as the preeminent Southern Baptist theologian during the 1930s and 1940s. As a theologian he was at home among both laymen and scholars. His lectures and books were written with the layman in mind, but they display an underlying academic depth and extensive knowledge of his field. His theology reflects the influence of three former professors: Benajah H. Carrollqv of Baylor, A. H. Strong of Rochester, and E. Y. Mullins of Louisville. But Conner's theology still displays his own acumen; his theological works reflect a biblical rather than systematic approach. Conner's complete theological system is best expressed in his works Revelation and God (1936) and The Gospel of Redemption (1945). He wrote fifteen books and numerous articles for professional journals and other periodicals. He was a member of the Southwestern Society of Biblical Study and Research, and in 1946 he delivered the Wilkinson Lectures at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Chicago. Conner married Blanche E. Horne, a Baylor University classmate, on June 4, 1907; they had six children. Conner died on May 26, 1952, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists (4 vols., Nashville: Broadman, 1958-82). James Leo Garrett, Jr., "The Bible at Southwestern Seminary during Its Formative Years: A Study of H. E. Dana and W. T. Conner," Baptist History and Heritage 21 (October 1986). James Leo Garrett, Jr., The Theology of Walter Thomas Conner (Th.D. dissertation, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1954). Samuel S. Hill, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion in the South (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1984). Stewart Albert Newman, W. T. Conner: Theologian of the Southwest (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1964). Jesse J. Northcutt, "Walter Thomas Conner, Theologian of Southwestern," Southwestern Journal of Theology 9 (Fall 1966). Who's Who in America, 1950-51.
CONNOR, TEXAS. Connor, on Farm Road 1428 eight miles east of Madisonville in Madison County, was established in the mid-1800s. Rufus M. Connor and James S. Connor were postmasters at the local post office, which operated from 1890 until 1905. The general store was also run by Jim Connor. The population of Connor was 101 in 1900. The area raised livestock and fruits, vegetables, and cotton. Several general stores, a blacksmith shop, a cotton gin, and a gristmill operated at the time. A two-room Black Oak School was established in 1880; one room was for the boys, and the other was for the girls. A single teacher sat between the rooms and taught arithmetic, English, history, and spelling. David Green donated land for South Bethel School and a Methodist church. Several other churches including a Baptist church and a Church of Christ were built in the community. The population was fifty in the 1930s, when Connor had a school and scattered dwellings. In 1989 a general store was in operation at the site. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Madison County Historical Commission, A History of Madison County (Dallas: Taylor, 1984).
CONNOR CREEK, TEXAS. The Connor Creek community, named after Delaware Indian chief John Connor, was near the junction of Connor Creek on Possum Kingdom Lake in southeast Young County. It was on part of a league given to Chief Connor on October 13, 1857, by the Texas legislature for his services to Texas. An estimated fifty families lived in the area in the 1880s. The Connor Creek school had twenty-four pupils in 1881 and 1897 and twenty-one in 1904. The community used the Finnis Cemetery four miles east in Jack County. In 1930 scattered residences were in the area, but Connor Creek was no longer identified on maps. Barbara A. Neal Ledbetter