Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Abe CONRO

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History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement,
growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties,
cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories,
biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views
of county seats, etc.
Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1142

Abe Conro

A. Conro, shingle manufacturer, was born at Grand Isle, Vt., Sept. 10,
1827.  When an infant he was removed to Essex Co., N.Y., where he remained
until he was about eight years of age; afterward lived in Vermont until he
was fourteen years old, then he went to Clinton Co., N.Y., and learned the
trade of millwright.  He was a resident of that county and its vicinity
until he was twenty-two years of age.  In 1850, he went to Missouri, where
he resided one year, then three years in Georgia, when he returned to the
State of New York, where he remained until he came to Oshkosh, in the
spring of 1855; built a gristmill here with his brother and Green & Powers,
the firm being Powers, Conro & Co. ; run the mill about three years;
afterward, until 1861, he worked at his trade of millwright.  In 1861 and
1862, for one year, he was engaged in the manufacture of lumber; then he
engaged in steamboating, which he continued until the spring of 1877.  For
nearly a year he was connected with the Fox River Improvement, and in the
summer of 1879 he engaged in his present business, in partnership with G.
C. Griffith.  Mr. Conro was married at Westville, Clinton Co., N.Y., in
December, 1854, to Eliza C. Mann, a native of that place.  They have three
children living- James M., Samuel A. and Charles A.  Mr. C. is a member of
A., F. & A. M.