BIO:  John Quincy Adams McConkey, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 165

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS MCCONKEY, son of Jame McConkey, by his first marriage, 
was born February 20, 1828.  He received his mental training in the 
schools of the township, and grew up as a clerk in his father’s store.  
At the age of thirty-three years, upon his father’s death, he and his 
brother, Charles R., succeeded the father in the mercantile business at 
Peach Bottom.  In 1866 he purchased the interest of Charles R. in the 
store, grain and boating business, in which he is at present engaged.  
He has served the township in various local offices.  In 1874 he was 
nominated for county treasurer by the Republican party; in 1880 he was 
the party nominee for State senate.  In both instances he received a 
large vote, but not sufficient to overcome the large majority of the 
opposition.  In 1882 he declined the nomination of his party for 
congress.  He was appointed postmaster in 1878, and has since held the 
position.  As partners, he and his brother Charles own all the business 
interests of the village of Peach Bottom and a tract of 350 acres of 
valuable farming land.  Mr. McConkey is an active Mason, a member of the 
K. T., Columbia Commandery, at Lancaster.  In 1860 he was married, in 
Harford County, Md., to Sarah S. Whiteford, daughter of Hugh Whiteford, 
a descendant of Col. Whiteford, who commanded at Havre de Grace during 
the British invasion of Baltimore in 1814.  They had two children, one 
who died young and Edward Everett McConkey, now in business with his 
father.