HENRY C. CONKLIN - Biography

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This biography appears on page 637 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HENRY C. CONKLIN, Burlington; born in New London, Conn., Dec. 19, 1823;
his parents moved to Jefferson Co., N. Y.; his father, Henry Conklin,
married Esther Bowk, of New London; they had two children- Elizabeth,
who died in New York State, and Henry C. Henry Conklin, Sr., was killed,
in New York, in 1834, by a runaway team; his wife died in 1854. Henry C.
came to Wisconsin in 1856, and followed his business, railroad
contracting, for twelve years, with headquarters at Racine, but his
residence at Burlington, where he owned a house and lot, purchased in
1856, when he first came here, and which he still occupies. He built the
house himself, being a mason by trade. He also worked on the historical
Victoria Bridge, crossing the St. Lawrence River, at Montreal, Canada.
He married, in Ogdensburg, N. Y., June 22, 1849, Elizabeth Hill. They
had three children, now dead; his wife also died in Burlington, in
April, 1868. He married again, in August, 1868, Mrs. Sarah Armour, widow
of John B. Armour. She had two sons by her first husband- Gaorge A. and
Purly P. They are members of the Congregational Church.