Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....CONNER, Harrison J. 1841 - living in 1899
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  CAPTAIN HARRISON J. CONNER. There is, perhaps, nothing of which a man may be
  more excusably proud than of gallant service in the cause of his country, nor is
  there any service which lives longer in the grateful memory of a people. Capt.
  Conner was among those who early offered their services to their country in its
  hour of peril and who never deserted their post until a peace crowned their
  efforts. He is one of the highly respected citizens of Orangeville, Pa., and was
  born in that town December 9, 1841, and is a son of Isaiah and Catherine R.
  (Millard) Conner, and a grandson of John Conner.
  
    The Conner family is of Irish origin, and John Conner, the grandfather of our
  subject, located in Center township, Columbia County, Pa., and, building a large
  tannery, he engaged in tanning, which business he conducted in connection with
  farming. He passed from this life in 1862 at the age of eighty years. He was the
  progenitor of a large family of children.
  
    Isaiah Conner, the father of our subject, was born in Center township,
  Columbia County, Pa., in 1812, and his younger days were spent working in the
  tannery owned by his father. Upon attaining his manhood he moved to Orangeville,
  Columbia County, where he successfully engaged in the tannery business until his
  death, which occurred in 1855 at the age of forty-two years. Mr. Conner was
  married to Catherine R. Millard, a daughter of Reece Millard, late a farmer of
  Briarcreek, now Center township. To this union the following children were born:
  Harrison J., the subject of this sketch; Anna Rebecca, deceased; Clara,
  deceased; Millard, a prominent resident of Orangeville; and William T., who died
  aged thirty years.
  
    Capt. Conner received his intellectual training in the public schools of his
  native town and at Millville Academy at Millville, Pa., and after his father's
  death he became connected with the tannery industry and continued that line of
  business until the breaking out of the Civil War. Being inspired by patriotic
  feeling, he offered his services in defense of the Union, and April 22, 1861,
  enlisted as a private in Company A, 6th Reg., Pa. Reserves. His patriotic ardor
  found full vent on many a hard-contested field of battle where he was eager to
  discharge his full duty. Our subject took part in all the engagements of the
  Army of the Potomac, the most prominent of which were the battles at
  Dranesville, Va., December 20, 1861; Second Bull Run, August 29-30-31, 1862;
  South Mountain, Md.} September 14, 1862; Antietam, September 17, 1862;
  Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862; Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3, 1863; New
  Hope Church; Wilderness; Cold Harbor; and Bethesda Church. On September 25,
  1862, he was appointed second lieutenant, in which position he served until his
  discharge. He received an honorable discharge at Harrisburg, Pa., June 11, 1864.
  In January, 1865, he was appointed first lieutenant of Company G, 3d Reg., U. S.
  Vet. Vol., Hancock's 1ist Army Corps, but was later promoted to captain, and was
  connected with Hancock's Corps which was retained at Washington after the close
  of the war. At the close of his military career he spent two years traveling
  through the West and then returned to Orangeville, where he has since been
  engaged in various kinds of business. He was one of the organizers of the
  Bloomsburg & Sullivan Railroad, and is a member and secretary of the board of
  directors.
  
    In politics Capt. Conner is a stanch Republican and in 1881 he was elected
  justice of the peace and has held that office to the present time. He is a past
  commander of Ent Post, G. A. R., of Bloomsburg, and is now a member of Pealer
  Post, No. 435, G. A. R., of Orangeville; and is past master of Orangeville
  Lodge, No. 460, F. & A. M.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
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