FRANK E. CONNER The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 435 BIO: FRANK E. CONNER, Monongalia County FRANK E. CONNER, proprietor of the leading tailoring and garment-cleaning establishment at Morgantown, Monongalia County, is one of the progressive and popular young business men of this vital little city. He was born on a farm two miles distant from Charleston, capital City of West Virginia, and the date of his nativity was November 2, 1892. He is a son of the later Joel P. and Elizabeth (Kendall) Conner, both of whom likewise were born near Charleston, where the respective families settled in the pioneer period of the history of Kanawha County. Frank E. Conner remained on the home farm until he was twelve years old. In 1913 he was graduated from public schools of Charleston. In the autumn of that year he entered the University of West Virginia, at Morgantown, but before completing a course in this institution he withdrew to enter business. While attending the schools of Charleston he supported himself by serving as a "cub" reporter on the Charleston Daily Mail and while in the university he paid his expenses by conducting a modest tailoring and cleaning shop, which he established in 1914. After leaving the university he gave close attention to this enterprise, which he has since developed to one of substantial order with the result that the year 1921 finds him the owner of the most modern dry-cleaning plant in the State of West Virginia, with an investment of somewhat more that $30,000. His merchant tailoring business likewise is one of prosperous order. Mr. Conner is the only Morgantown member of the National Association of Master Dyers and Cleaners, and he is a member of the Eastern States Association of Dyers and Cleaners. He is an active member and a former director of the Morgantown Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the local Kiwanis Club, and he and his wife hold member ship in the First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Conner, whose maiden name was Blodwen Mae Pugh, was born at Port Talbot, Wales, a daughter of Howell Pugh, now a department foreman at the plant of the Morgantown Sheet & Tin Plate Company. Mr. and Mrs. Conner have two children: Frank E., Jr., and Martha Mae, aged respectively 3 years and one year in 1921.