John Conway and Thalia Bentel

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Husband John Conway ¹

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           Born: 27 Mar 1830 - Beaver Co, PA 2
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         Father: Michael Conway (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary O'Brien (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1857 2

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Wife Thalia Bentel ^{2 3}

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           Born:  - Freedom, Beaver Co, PA
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         Father: Philip Bentel (Abt 1806-1883) 4
         Mother: Margaret Smith (Abt 1806-1881) 5

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Children

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1 F Lillian Conway ⁶

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         Spouse: N. Fetterman Hurst (1850-      ) 7
           Marr: 1881 6

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2 M Charles B. Conway ²

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General Notes: Husband - John Conway

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He grew to manhood in the rural district of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, obtaining his education at the public schools and the college at Vincennes, Indiana, where he attended two years. His first business was as a steamboat clerk on the Ohio, at which he remained from 1847 to 1854. He then embarked in the dry goods trade and established a store at New Castle, Pennsylvania, remaining there until 1856. In 1858 he came to Rochester and was engaged in mercantile trade until 1871, when the firm the John Conway Company Bank, was established. The business of this firm was safely conducted by Mr. Conway through the panic of 1873, and the dismal business times of 1874 and 1875, and he has won the confidence of the community. He spent most of his life in Beaver County, and for years was prominently identified with its commercial interests and progress.
He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church, of which he was been a trustee for over sixteen years. He was president of the Olive Stove Works and of the Union Street Railway Company of Rochester; was also a director of the Rochester Heat & Light Company, was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and took thirty-two degrees in that order. In politics he was a Democrat.

1 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 759, 781.

2 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 759.

3 —, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 179.

4 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 747, 759.

5 —, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 176.

6 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 781.

7 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 669, 780.