California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


THOMAS A. CONWAY. For only a brief time was Thomas A. Conway a citizen of the 
vicinity of Portersville, although he had been a horticulturist of Zante since 1893. He came to 
this locality in 1901, purchasing twenty acres of navel oranges, and engaged in its cultivation and 
improvement until his death, which occurred February 17, 1904. He was a native of Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, where his father, Thomas, spent his life as a jeweler. Thomas A. Conway worked 
in a planing mill in Minnesota, acting as foreman for the firm of Smith & Wyman. Deciding 
to locate in California, he was engaged as a horticulturist in Zante from 1893 t0 T 9 0I � owning 
a fifteen-acre orchard of oranges, which he set out. After his location here he remained until 
his death, one of the successful orange growers of the vicinity. Fraternally he was a promi- 
nent Mason and politically was a stanch adherent of the principles advocated in the platform of 
the Republican party. During the Civil war he enlisted for service, and was raised to the office of 
second lieutenant in the Twenty-first Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry for the period of 
three years. He was united in marriage with Lane Miller, a native of Naples, 111., and the 
daughter of Asher Miller. Her father was a miller by occupation in Naples, where his death 
occurred. Mrs. Conway died in Minneapolis February 16, 1900. They were the parents of 
two children, Eda F., the wife of W. H. Grant, and Alice, the wife of Seymour S. Hough, who 
resides in Eveleth, Minn.