By Josiah Granville Leach, pp 80 - 81]
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“A Biographical History of Lancaster Co. Being a History of
Early Settlers and Eminent Men of the County” by Alex. Harris, 1827
Lancaster, Pa.: Elias Barr & Co., 1872
Pgs. 145, 146, REDMOND CONYNGHAM, was a native of Philadelphia, and was a graduate of Princeton College, New Jersey.He inherited from his paternal grandfather an estate of (written L that is crossed in the middle) 2,000 per annum, in the county of Donegal, Ireland, where he spent several years of his early life.While in Ireland he was the companion of Curran, Grattan, and other bright intellects of Hibernian soil.Among the most brilliant of these was his cousin, WM. CONYNGHAM PLUNKET, afterwards Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and who was named after MR. CONYNGHAM’S grandfather.
MR. CONYNGHAM lived some years in Luzerne Co., and while a citizen of that county had the honor to represent it for some time in the Legislature.He moved to Lancaster Co., Pa., where he spent the balance of his days. He was married to a daughter of JASPER YEATES, Judge of the Supreme Court of Pa. He died June 16, 1846, in the 65th year of his age.
MR. CONYNGHAM was a great reader, a finished scholar, and evinced an especial fondness for antiquarian research; his contributions to the Historical Society of Pa., and to the American Philosophical Society, of both of which he was a member. His papers are valuable contributions to the historical and philosophical domain of our literature. He wrote much on the early history of Pa., and the aborigines of Lancaster Co. His death was announced in the rooms of the American Philosophical Society by Bishop Potter. As a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was frequently a lay delegate to its Diocesan Conventions. The church in Paradise, this county, is in a good degree a monument of his liberality and zeal.
MRS. ELIZABETH CONYNGHAM, wife of the above, survived her husband many years.She died Aug. 3, 1867, at the advanced age of 90 years.
Lancaster, Pa.: Elias Barr & Co., 1872
Pgs. 145, 146, REDMOND CONYNGHAM, was a native of Philadelphia, and was a graduate of Princeton College, New Jersey.He inherited from his paternal grandfather an estate of (written L that is crossed in the middle) 2,000 per annum, in the county of Donegal, Ireland, where he spent several years of his early life.While in Ireland he was the companion of Curran, Grattan, and other bright intellects of Hibernian soil.Among the most brilliant of these was his cousin, WM. CONYNGHAM PLUNKET, afterwards Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and who was named after MR. CONYNGHAM’S grandfather.
MR. CONYNGHAM lived some years in Luzerne Co., and while a citizen of that county had the honor to represent it for some time in the Legislature.He moved to Lancaster Co., Pa., where he spent the balance of his days. He was married to a daughter of JASPER YEATES, Judge of the Supreme Court of Pa. He died June 16, 1846, in the 65th year of his age.
MR. CONYNGHAM was a great reader, a finished scholar, and evinced an especial fondness for antiquarian research; his contributions to the Historical Society of Pa., and to the American Philosophical Society, of both of which he was a member. His papers are valuable contributions to the historical and philosophical domain of our literature. He wrote much on the early history of Pa., and the aborigines of Lancaster Co. His death was announced in the rooms of the American Philosophical Society by Bishop Potter. As a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was frequently a lay delegate to its Diocesan Conventions. The church in Paradise, this county, is in a good degree a monument of his liberality and zeal.
MRS. ELIZABETH CONYNGHAM, wife of the above, survived her husband many years.She died Aug. 3, 1867, at the advanced age of 90 years.
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