At his residence, near Paradise, on Tuesday the 16th inst., Redmond Conyngham, Esq., in the 65th year of his age.
Mr. Conyngham was a native of Philadelphia, and received his collegiate education in the college at Princeton, New Jersey. Since then he has been a resident of different parts of his native state--at one time representing the portion of it in which he then lived, (Luzerne co.,) for two or three sessions in the Legislature. And wherever he has lived, he has been respected and beloved, in an unusual degree. ............
Mr. Conyngham's father and grandfather rendered service in a pecuniary way and otherwise to the cause of the American Revolution, which outhitting never to be forgotten; and the naval exports of his relation, Commodore Conyngham, gave lustre to the arms of the young republic. Mr. Conyngham inherited from his grandfathers and estate worth L2000 per annum, in the county of Donegal. Ireland in which country he spent several years of his early life, the friend of Curran, Grattan, and the other "high stars of Ireland." .........
The Lancaster Examiner (Lancaster, Pa). 24 Jun 1846, Wed. p. 3
At his residence, near Paradise, on Tuesday the 16th inst., Redmond Conyngham, Esq., in the 65th year of his age.
Mr. Conyngham was a native of Philadelphia, and received his collegiate education in the college at Princeton, New Jersey. Since then he has been a resident of different parts of his native state--at one time representing the portion of it in which he then lived, (Luzerne co.,) for two or three sessions in the Legislature. And wherever he has lived, he has been respected and beloved, in an unusual degree. ............
Mr. Conyngham's father and grandfather rendered service in a pecuniary way and otherwise to the cause of the American Revolution, which outhitting never to be forgotten; and the naval exports of his relation, Commodore Conyngham, gave lustre to the arms of the young republic. Mr. Conyngham inherited from his grandfathers and estate worth L2000 per annum, in the county of Donegal. Ireland in which country he spent several years of his early life, the friend of Curran, Grattan, and the other "high stars of Ireland." .........
The Lancaster Examiner (Lancaster, Pa). 24 Jun 1846, Wed. p. 3
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