A native of Cadiz, Ohio, born on the 16th of November, 1822. His parents were Charles and Frances Arnold Conaway. The Conaways were from Ireland, and among the pioneers in Maryland and Virginia. The subject of this notice spent his youth in and near his native town, tilling the soil and improving his mind as far as a common school afforded opportunities. At twenty years of age he entered the academy at Hagerstown, Carroll County, teaching during the winter seasons. He read medicine while continuing his teaching. He practiced five years at Bakersville, Coshocton County, and graduated on the 25th of February, 1854. In 1857, he reached Brooklyn, Poweshiek county, where he settled and has been the leading physician for twenty-one years. Dr. Conaway has been United States Medical Examiner for pensions. He was State Senator from January, 1874, to January, 1878. Was chairman of the Committee on Township and County Organization, and acted on four or five other committees. While he was in that body he was appointed to visit the Hospital for the Insane at Mount Pleasant. Dr. Conaway was a Democrat until the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, since when he has usually acted with the Republicans. When elected to the Senate he was nominated and supported by the Patrons of Husbandry. He is a Master Mason and an Odd Fellow. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a trustee of the Wesleyan University, a Methodist school, located at Mount Pleasant. The Doctor's wife was Miss Mary E. Canning, of Rogersville, Ohio; married the 7th of October, 1849.
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