Daniel Joseph Conway Biography


	This biography appears on pages 212-213 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				DANIEL JOSEPH CONWAY.  

	Among the leading and prominent representatives of the bar of 
Sioux Falls is numbered Daniel Joseph Conway, who for a number of years 
has held the office of city attorney and since 1891 has been in 
successful general practice in the community. He was born in La Salle, 
Illinois, March 8, 1860, and is a son of Daniel and Mary (McTernan) 
Conway. The father, who was a native of County Sligo, Ireland, came to 
America as a young man, and died August 4, 1859, when he was about 
thirty-five years of age. In his family were five children: Maria L., 
now known as Sister Maria, a charity sister who is superior of the 
Infants Orphan Asylum, of Utica, New York; Phillip, a resident of Sioux 
City, Iowa; James F., of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Daniel Joseph and 
Patrick C., twins, the latter now pastor of a Roman Catholic church of 
Chicago, Illinois.  

	Daniel Joseph Conway acquired his preliminary education in the 
public schools of La Salle and later attended St. Viateur's College at 
Bourbonnais, Illinois. He was later a student in the Northern Normal 
School at Dixon and following the completion of his course engaged in 
teaching in Livingston county, Illinois, in 1880 and 1881, and in 
Highland, that state, in 1882. Mr. Conway went to Iowa in 1887, 
locating in Orange City, and in January, 1888, he was appointed deputy 
auditor of Sioux county, Iowa, serving until March, 1889. Upon the 
expiration of his term he came to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and 
engaged ill the real-estate business here until September, 1891. In 
that year he began the practice of law and in 1893 became a member of 
the firm of Muller & Conway, which partnership still exists. He has 
been connected with important professional work since that time, 
controlling today a representative and -growing patronage. His ability 
received official recognition in 1898, when he was made city attorney 
of Sioux Falls, serving two years. He was again appointed to that 
office in 1907, this time serving for one year. In May, 1909, he 
received his third appointment to the position, which he still holds, 
his official record being a credit alike to his legal ability and his 
public spirit. In June, 1897, Mr. Conway was appointed United States 
commissioner for South Dakota by Judge John E. Carland and has held 
that position continuously since, being reappointed by Judge Carland 
and later by his successor, Judge James D. Elliott.  

	On the 26th of November, 1890, in Kansas City, Missouri, Mr. 
Conway was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Frances Conness, a 
daughter of Walter Conness, and they have become the parents of seven 
children: Henrietta M., Roberta M., Marie B., Frances M., Daniel 
Walter, Patrick Charles and James Vincent.  

	Mr. Conway is a member of the Roman Catholic church, is connected 
fraternally with the Knights of Columbus and gives his political 
allegiance to the democratic party. He is one of the leading attorneys 
of Sioux Falls, well known in private practice and in official circles, 
where he has accomplished a great deal of notable and lasting work.