Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Conway, Patrick W. 1853 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 19, 2006, 5:58 pm Author: John C. Odell (1916) PATRICK W. CONWAY, M. D. One of the able and honored physicians of Carroll county, Indiana, is Dr. Patrick W. Conway, former trustee of Madison township, who, for twenty-seven years, practiced medicine at Ockley, and, in 1907, came to Delphi, where he has since continued the active practice of his profession. He is a man of fine intellectual and professional attainments, of most gracious personality, of strong and noble character, and one who has labored with zeal and devotion to lift the load of human suffering. He has a high regard for the ethics of his profession and has exhibited marked skill in the treatment of diseases. Measured by the prevailing standard, his professional career has been a financial success, and he is the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and forty-one acres of land, besides an attractive home in south Delphi and has other possessions in the way of stocks and bonds. Dr. Patrick W. Conway is a native of Madison township, Carroll county, Indiana, born on February 3, 1853. He is a son of James and Johanna (McCormick) Conway, the former of whom was a native of County Limerick, Ireland, and the latter also a native of the Emerald Isle. They were married in Ireland and came to America in 1847. For some time James Conway worked in New York state, afterward coming west, where he worked on the Wabash canal. After the completion of the canal he came to Delphi and engaged in road work. In 1850 he purchased fifty acres of land in Madison township, where he lived until his death, in 1869, at the age of seventy years. Although James Conway was a modest, unassuming man, he was a good citizen, faithful husband and a kind father. He had been favored with more than the average educational advantages, but, although he was importuned many times to accept public position, especially the office of township trustee, he always declined. His good wife died about twenty-two years ago, at the age of nearly eighty years. James and Johanna (McCormick) Conway were the parents of six children, of whom three, John, Johanna and James, Jr., are deceased. The living children are Mary, a resident of Denver, Colorado; Dr. Patrick W., with whom this narrative deals, and Margaret, the widow of Daniel Honan, who lives east of Ockley, in this county. Born on the home farm, Dr. Patrick W. Conway received his elementary education in the public schools of his home township, afterwards becoming a student at the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute. After leaving school he engaged in the teaching profession for a number of years in Carroll and Tippecanoe counties, Indiana. In the fall of 1877 he took up the study of medicine, entering Rush Medical College, of Chicago, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1880. He immediately began the active practice of his profession at Aydelotte, Benton county, Indiana, where he remained for two years. He then came to Ockley, Carroll county, his old home, where he practiced continuously for twenty-seven years. In 1907 Doctor Conway removed to Delphi, where he has since lived. While living at Ockley in 1900 he was elected as trustee of Madison township, serving a term of four years, during which time he performed his duties conscientiously and faithfully. On February 6, 1883, Doctor Conway was married to Ida Timmons. who was born and reared in Benton county, Indiana, the daughter of Robert Timmons, of Aydelotte. To this union have been born four children, all of whom are living with the exception of one daughter, Mary, who died in infancy. Bertha is a teacher in the schools of Carroll county, now teaching one and one-half miles from Delphi. Will R., who is twenty-four years of age, is a locomotive fireman at Lafayette, Indiana. Eva, the youngest of the family, is a student in the high school at Delphi. Doctor Conway is actively interested in farming, owning a farm of two hundred and forty-one acres, two hundred acres of which is in Madison township and forty-one acres in Clay township. It may be said of him that he has been a very successful man and, in all that goes to make true manhood, Doctor Conway has measured up to the full standard. He and his family are earnest and devoted members of the Catholic church, in which he was reared. Doctor Conway is a member of the Carroll County Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical Association. Politically, he is identified with the Democratic party. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Biographical Section of HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/conway128nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 5.3 Kb