CLASS OF 1865

John Sanborn Conner died at his home in the city of Cincinnati on the morning of July 11. He had been a great sufferer from asthma for several years, and for three months had been confined to his room. He was born in Cincinnati June 30, 1844, his father, Dr. Phineas S. Conner, a, Dartmouth graduate in 1835, having been a medical practitioner in that city until his early death. In college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and was received into Phi Beta Kappa at graduation. Soon after graduation he began the study of law in the office of General E. F. Noyes '57, and after graduating from Cincinnati Law School in 1868 he began the practice of his profession in General Noyes's office. In April, 1869, he was appointed first assistant solicitor of the city, and held that position four years, returning to private practice in 1873. For five years from February, 1882, he served as one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Hamilton county. Since that time he had been actively and successfully engaged in private practice. From 1876 to 1881 he was a member of the board of education of North Bend, Ohio, where his home then was, and from 1903 till his death a member of the board of education of the special high school of Miami Township. He was actively connected with many of the charities of Cincinnati, being a trustee of the Home for the Friendless from 1898 to 1903; trustee and treasurer of the board of fiscal trustees of the Widows' Homeland Asylum 1895-1905, and afterwards its president; trustee and treasurer of the Old Men's Home, 1895-1905. He was a vestryman of the Church of Our Saviour, 1900-3; president of the . Episcopal Churdh Club of Cincinnati, 1902-3; president of the National Conference of Episcopal Clubs of the United States, 1903; delegate from his diocese to the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1904. He was a Mason of high degree; president of the New England Society of Cincinnati in 1903; president of the Ohio Sons of the Revolution, 1906; governor of the Ohio Society of Colonial Wars, 1904. He had been identified with many business enterprises, such as director of the Central Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Cincinnati, president of the Power Building Company, director of the Remmers Soap Company, and director of the Cincinnati, Georgetown, and Portsmouth Railroad Company. During all his active life, Judge Conner was in the habit, of taking a yearly sea voyage, and had crossed the Atlantic forty-four times. A widow and one daughter survive i him.

Secretary, Rev. Henry I. Cushman, 26 Pitman St., Providence, R. I.