Biography

12/19/1846 - 06/25/1909

CONRY, Patrick M., a Representative from Schuylkill County; born, December 19, 1846 in County Mayo, Ireland; private, Company L, 60th Regiment, 3rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry (1864-1865, Civil War); coal miner; elected, school director, Shenandoah, Pa.; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a member of the National Greenback Party in 1878; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1880); foreman, Schuylkill Traction Company; elected, health officer, Schuylkill County Board of Health (1895-1909); died, June 25, 1909 in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Annunciation Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.