Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NamePauline Belvedere CLARK 
776, name not stated
776, name not statedBirth22 Feb 1806, Middletown, Rutland, Vermont780, p 20
FatherDr. Ezra CLARK
MotherSarah
Individual Notes
• Middle name given as Belvidue; interpreted to be Belvedere based on the town built by James Conger, probably named in honor of his wife.776,780, p 20
Spouses
Birth18 Feb 1805, Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey776, gives bp of Trenton, Mercer county, NJ,777
MemoRockaway birth place due to marriage place of his parents
Death10 Apr 1876, St. Clair, St. Clair, Michigan776, month, year & place only,778,779, p 18; year & place only Age: 71
Burialabt 15 Apr 1876, Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio778, place only,780, p 20
OccupationLawyer781, p 8
Ancestral File #B434-PF688
FatherDavid Beeman CONGER (1779-~1839)
MotherHannah Ferrin LOCKWOOD
Individual Notes
• [excerpts] Previous to coming to Michigan he lived in Ohio (Cleveland we believe) where he had attained great prominence at the bar, being regarded as one of the ablest criminal lawyers in that state. He came to Michigan in about 1839, and bought a large tract of land in Macomb County, at the mouth of the Clinton River, where he went into business. He erected saw mills, and laid out a city known as Belvedere. The investment was not a successful one and Mr. Conger sank a large fortune in the enterprise.
He was an ardent Whig, and in 1850 was elected to Congress from the Third District, which then composed the counties of Macomb, St. Clair,...etc.
He leaves a widow, (a sister of Mr. Nelson Mills of Marysville) and a son and daughter by a former wife.776
• CONGER, James Lockwood, a representative from Michigan; born in Trenton, N.J., February 18, 1805; moved to New York in 1809 with his parents, who settled in Canandaigua, Ontario County; attended the district schools and Canandaigua Academy; studied medicine; moved to Lancaster, Ohio, in 1822; taught school for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Lancaster, Ohio; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and continued the practice of law from 1826 to 1837, when he moved to Macomb County, Mich., and laid out the town of Belvedere; engaged in banking and mercantile pursuits until 1850; moved to Mount Clemens, Mich.; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852; resumed his former business pursuits; owing to ill health retired from active business pursuits; died in St. Clair, St. Clair County, Mich., April 10, 1876; interment in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.778
• Very little has been preserved of the Cleveland life of James Lockwood Conger, a lawyer residing in the city between 1826 and 1840, save through a package of old letters written by Mrs. Conger to her only sister, Mrs. Erwina Miner of Centerville, Fairfield Co., Ohio. James L. Conger, b. in Trenton, N. J., was the son of David and Hannah Lockwood Conger, who later lived in Phelps, N. Y. He received his general education in that locality and studied law with Judge Ewing of Ohio.779, p 16
• Some time after the panic of 1837, that was the cause of scattering many of the numerous Cleveland lawyers and doctors to all points of the compass, James L. Conger removed to Belvedere, Mich., where in 1847, after four years of battling with tuberculosis, Mrs. Conger died, aged forty-one. Mr. Conger married again, but there is no record furnished of this union. He became a prominent man of that community and at one time represented it in the lower house of Congress in Washington.779, p 18
He was an ardent Whig, and in 1850 was elected to Congress from the Third District, which then composed the counties of Macomb, St. Clair,...etc.
He leaves a widow, (a sister of Mr. Nelson Mills of Marysville) and a son and daughter by a former wife.776
• CONGER, James Lockwood, a representative from Michigan; born in Trenton, N.J., February 18, 1805; moved to New York in 1809 with his parents, who settled in Canandaigua, Ontario County; attended the district schools and Canandaigua Academy; studied medicine; moved to Lancaster, Ohio, in 1822; taught school for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Lancaster, Ohio; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and continued the practice of law from 1826 to 1837, when he moved to Macomb County, Mich., and laid out the town of Belvedere; engaged in banking and mercantile pursuits until 1850; moved to Mount Clemens, Mich.; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852; resumed his former business pursuits; owing to ill health retired from active business pursuits; died in St. Clair, St. Clair County, Mich., April 10, 1876; interment in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.778
• Very little has been preserved of the Cleveland life of James Lockwood Conger, a lawyer residing in the city between 1826 and 1840, save through a package of old letters written by Mrs. Conger to her only sister, Mrs. Erwina Miner of Centerville, Fairfield Co., Ohio. James L. Conger, b. in Trenton, N. J., was the son of David and Hannah Lockwood Conger, who later lived in Phelps, N. Y. He received his general education in that locality and studied law with Judge Ewing of Ohio.779, p 16
• Some time after the panic of 1837, that was the cause of scattering many of the numerous Cleveland lawyers and doctors to all points of the compass, James L. Conger removed to Belvedere, Mich., where in 1847, after four years of battling with tuberculosis, Mrs. Conger died, aged forty-one. Mr. Conger married again, but there is no record furnished of this union. He became a prominent man of that community and at one time represented it in the lower house of Congress in Washington.779, p 18
Census
• 1840 Census: Harrison Township, Macomb, Michigan. 0001110001/001001. Listed as J. L. Conger.782
• 1860 Census: St. Clair, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 58, b NJ. Lawyer. $15,000; $1000. No wife present; 3 domestics in household.783
• 1860 Census: St. Clair, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 58, b NJ. Lawyer. $15,000; $1000. No wife present; 3 domestics in household.783
Marriage23 Dec 1824, Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio776, marriage only,780, p 20; date only,779, p 16; month, year & place only
ChildrenSeneca (Died young) (1825-)
Helen Edwina (1827-~1911)
William James (1829-1882)