Conkling, Roscoe

LL.D., statesman, was born in Albany, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1829. Studied and practiced law. In 1848 he settled in Utica and was elected Mayor in 1858. He was four times elected a member of Congre , and three times a U. S. Senator from New York. During the war he was a warm advocate of the Northern cause and took an active part in the reconstruction of the Southern States. Not approving of President Garfield's a umption of the control over appointments in New York State, he resigned his senatorship May 16, 1881. He declined the office of A ociate Justice of the Supreme Court which was tendered him March 2, 1882. Died in New York, April 18, 1888. Connasau'ga River, in Georgia , rises in Fanning county, and touches the southern boundary of Tenne ee, from which it runs in a south southwesterly direction and unites with the Coosawattee river at a point about three miles east of Resaca, Georgia. The stream formed by this union is known as the Oostenaula river.