Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Conant, Ernest B. 
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Author: James L. King (1905)

    ERNEST B. CONANT, one of the prominent members of the bar of Shawnee County,
Kansas, who has been a resident of Topeka only since August, 1903, but whose
connection with Washburn College has made him many friends among the citizens,
was born at Enfield, New Hampshire, and is a son of Washington I. and Anna F.
(Skinner) Conant.

    The parents of Mr. Conant were both of New England birth and education, the
father being a native of New Hampshire and the mother, of Vermont. Enfield is
one of the important mill towns of Grafton County, the center of a large
manufacturing district, and the father of Mr. Conant was superintendent of one
of the great woolen mills there. In 1886 he retired from active life and his
death took place in 1902, at Boston, Massachusetts, but his burial was at Enfield.

    Ernest B. Conant completed the common-school course in his native State and
in September, 1887, he entered Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire, where
he remained four years, completing the course in June, 1891. He then entered
Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1895, with the degree of A. B. In
the same year he entered the Harvard Law School where he was graduated in law in
1898 and in September of the same year was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.

    Mr. Conant entered into the practice of his profession at Boston, where he
remained until the end of 1902, when he moved to Chicago, having been appointed
one of the professors in the Illinois College of Law. In May of the same year he
was elected dean of the law department of Washburn College, and came to Topeka
the following August. Since taking up his residence here, he has been engaged in
general practice, having become a member of the Shawnee County bar in October,
1904.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.


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