Conger, James

Summary of James CONGER - 26 Jul 2010
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Name: James CONGER
Sex: Male
Father: Job CONGER (bet 1725 and 1728 - abt 1802)
Mother: Lydia CODDINGTON (abt 1732 - abt 1800)

Individual Facts
Birth 11 Jan 1760 Rahway, Union Co., NJ
Death 11 Nov 1813 (age 53) , Albany Co., NY

Marriages/Children
1. Elizabeth MC_NAB
Children
Margaret CONGER (abt 1786 - 1872)
William CONGER (7 Mar 1788 - 30 Sep 1871)
Uzziah CONGER (22 Aug 1789 - 13 Mar 1864)
John CONGER (abt 1792 - )
Hugh CONGER (9 Jan 1796 - 31 Mar 1848)
Lydia CONGER (1800 - )
Christian CONGER (7 Feb 1805 - 28 Feb 1864)

2. Sally DALY
Children Samuel CONGER (abt 1808 - )
Betsey CONGER (abt 1810 - )

Notes (Individual)
General:
James Conger

PARENTS: Job Conger & Lydia Coddington

MILITARY: James Conger served as a Private with Capt. John Van Wies (3d
Rensselier) Co., Schuyler's 1st Albany Reg. N-Yr Troops, Rev. War.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 251 - Maxine Crowell
Leonard)

MILITARY: Van Wie's (3d Rensselaerwyk) Company, Schuyler's (1st Albany Co.)
Regiment New York Troops, Revolutionary War. See p. 347, Vol. I, Archives of
New York. Per Charles G.B. Conger.

CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Member of the 1st Presbyterian Church in Albany.

Conger, Uzziah

Summary of Uzziah CONGER - 26 Jul 2010
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Name: Uzziah CONGER
Sex: Male
Father: Job CONGER (bet 1725 and 1728 - abt 1802)
Mother: Lydia CODDINGTON (abt 1732 - abt 1800)

Individual Facts
Birth 14 Jan 1758 Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., NJ
Death 12 Jul 1834 (age 76) Cato, Cayuga Co., NY
Burial Jul 1834 (age 76) , Cayuga Co., NY, Ira Hill Cemetery

Marriages/Children
1. Mary HUNGERFORD
Marriage 19 Jan 1780 (age 22) New York
Children
Job C. CONGER (19 Nov 1780 - 15 Jun 1845)
Elizabeth CONGER (1783 - 1783)
Nancy Ann CONGER (15 Mar 1786 - 7 Feb 1870)
James CONGER (1789 - )
Enoch CONGER Rev. (15 Feb 1792 - 17 Apr 1872)
Sabrina CONGER (1 Feb 1794 - 2 Sep 1875)
Lucy CONGER (20 Oct 1796 - 7 Nov 1847)
Mary CONGER (9 Dec 1797 - abt 3 Jul 1878)
Silas CONGER (7 Jan 1800 - 25 Nov 1869)
Lydia CONGER (3 Mar 1802 - 1 Apr 1848)

Notes (Individual)
General:
Uzziah Conger

MILITARY: Served as a Corporal in Capt. Van Weis' 3rd & 5th Rensselier Company of Gen. Schuyler's 1st Albany Regt., New York, 1776-1783
(Source: Conger Confab, Vol. II, Mar 1996 - furnished by Robert Guilinger)


BIOGRAPHY: Uzziah Conger was born in Woodbridge, N.J., and with his father's family removed before the Revolution to New York, finally settling in Albany County. He served in the Revolution for some seven years, part of said service being as Corporal of 5th (Rensselaerwyck) Company (Vanwies) of the 3rd Albany County (Col. Philip Schuyler's) Regiment, New York Troops. See p. 347, Vol. 1, Archives of New York. He removed with his family after the Revolution to Cayuga County, New York, where he died at Cato. He was a Revolutionary pensioner.
(Source: Book of Charles G.B. Conger, p. 45)


BIOGRAPHY:
Uzziah Conger removed with his father's family from Rahway, NJ to Dutchess Co., New York about 1770, and finally settled in Albany county, NY.

He served in the Revolution for seven years, a part of said service being as corporal of Van Wie's Co. of 3rd Albany Co., Regiment Troops. He also served in the 5th Resselaerwyck Regt (Page 347, Vol. I., Archives of New York).

He removed with his family after the Revolution to Cayuga county, New York, where he died at Cato. He was a Revoluntionary Pensioner.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 493 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)


CHURCH_AFFILIATION-CHILDREN:
He was known as, Deacon Uzziah Conger, due to being a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church.

A Presbyterian Church founded in 1836 at Meridan, NY was a branch of the Ira Hill Church founded in 1807.

In 1836, Nancy Ann Conger Bradt, Sabrina Conger Cogswell, Mary Conger Elwell and Lydia Conger Van Wie brought their certificates to the Meridan Church. They were daughters of Uzziah and Mary (Hungerford) [Conger].

Nancy was dismissed 17 Mar 1845; Mary dismissed 9 Jul 1837; Sabrina d. 1 Apr 1848. [What does the "d." abbreviation mean? REH] They are buried in the Meridan Cemetery.

The Ira Church ceased to function sometime about 1876. No records of that church have been found, but that Ira Church must have been the Presbyterian Church where the two Job Congers were deacons. There were two Job Congers living there in 1820, along with Uzziah, John, Benjamin, Hugh and William Conger. They all had families in the 1820 census.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 221 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)


DEATH-CEMETERY: Date of death, 12 Jul 1834, from the tombstone inscription at Ira Hill Cemetery, Cayuga Co., NY. (CFA II, p. 723)

Conger, Harold Henry

Harold Henry Conger

RECOLLECTIONS

My dad [Harold Henry Conger] was born in 1890 so was one of the young men taken up by the advent of the automobile. He became a mechanic at a very early age and soon had his own garage. I think it was about 1914 at Keeseville, NY. He later had more garages in more metropolitan cities such as Schenectady. He wasn't a good business man but he became widely known for his tool making ability.

Among the people he worked for was Thomas Edison. In 1917 he built an engine for Henry Ford. It was the first six cylinder motor in America and it was tested in 1918 with a car my dad built for Ford.

Ford, Edison, Stimety and Firestone took an Adirondack vacation in this car in 1918. My father drove the men all over the Adirondacks. Mr. Ford didn't want the engine but he sold the design to the Dodge family. So we Congers never drive Fords!

My mother taught in rural schools and never got more than $4 a day -- and sometimes a lot less. Her family were Finneys and they apparently were merchants for century after century.

My grandfather, Earl Allan Conger, 1856, was a mountain man that my mother thought was lazy. He was fire warden for a PA-Co. ... moonshine mountain for a great many years. He loved to hunt and supplied the road crews and line men for the first power lines in [the] mountains with deer meat.

His big farm was at Port Kent on Lake Champlain. Teams of oxen and horses drew hugh loads of logs across the lake to Burlington, VT on winter ice. It was a trip of thirteen miles. My grandpa, being a mountain man, was a great storyteller too.

My younger brother, Robert, died at the age of 59. He was a tool maker and mechanic. He had a good service record in World War II.

My brother, Walter, owned a bottled gas plant which, incidentally, my dad invented the regulator for in the 1930's. Walter was responsible for hundreds of volunteer fire departments in New York State and is a good local civic citizen.

My older sister, Vera, had a son who died and a daughter who has a large family. Vera worked at many things and was a baker for the state of New York. She is just one fine person.

My sister, Dorothy, had one son and is now a retired school teacher. She is another of what I perceive to be a Conger trait; steadfast citizen, more Republican than Democrat; more Dutch Reformed Church than Catholic.

Looking back at Conger families is looking back at America being built into a great nation. The great many steadfast citizens are truly the building blocks. Each one is adding a little to each community in which they lived. None of them is taking away anything but each is leaving a piece of themselves.

The world is changing, but your pulling the floating and scattered families together may be the greatest contribution of all!

Sometimes when one looks at an old and lonesome graveyard, we say, "Look at all the forgotten people." Well, we can just look over at the nice hospitals, the town hall, the school and the business community and "then" you know that only these dead ancestors did this by staying in the community until they died.

[Note: On 25 March 2008 I searched the entire Conger file and could not find this family. Where do they fit into the Conger family tree? Richard E. Henthorn)