Biographical Sketch of Richard T. Conn, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Richard T. Conn.  John Maddox Conn, the grandfather of the subject of
this sketch, was a native of Ireland, where he was married.  On his 
arrival here he settled in the colony of Virginia, and on the breaking
out of the war that revolutionized the political status of the colonies,
he, like most Irishmen of that period, joined the continental army.  He
raised quite a family, and became an early settler of Bourbon county,
Kentucky, where he and his wife were both buried after long and useful
lives.  Our subject's father, John M. was eighteen years old when his
parents settled in Kentucky.  He soon became enlisted in the defense of
the settlements against Indians, and the War of 1812 beginning at this
time, he joined the forces raised, and served in one or two expeditions
against the Indians of the northwest, and was under the command of Gen.
Harrison in his celebrated Indian campaign.  He continued to reside in
Bourbon county till his death.  He became quite a wealthy farmer, and 
was a gentleman of considerable influence.  His wife was formerly Miss
Mary N. Keene, by whom he raised ten children, eight of whom are still
living: Dr. Notley, Dr. James V., Mary A., Ethline, Sophia, William,
Sarah T.  Mr. Conn was born in the ides of March, 1817.  He received a
liberal education, at Burlington, Boone county, and afterward took a
clerkship in a dry goods house in Covington, where he soon rose to a
partnership, and where he spent eleven years of his life.  His health
failing, he sold out his interests, and returned to his native home, and
conducted his father's farm for three years.  He moved to this county 
with his family in 1850, and bought the farm now occupied by Mills and 
Douthett.  He bought his present home in 1856, a fine tract of 400 acres
very handsomely improved, and well supplied with water, from never fail-
ing springs, and fine coal.  Mr. Conn is a neat and successful farmer,
and has done something as a live stock dealer.  He was married in 
December, 1845, to Miss S. J. Polk, daughter of Col. Daniel Polk, and a
relative of James K. Polk; also of Trusten Polk, once governor of this 
state.  They have two daughters: Annie V., the wife of S. W. Foder, a
wealthy farmer of St. Louis county; and Miss Florence.

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