PATRICK CONNER

    Patrick Conner was the first settler on Sugar Run, coming from Pennsylvania, about 1804-05.  He owned and occupied a small farm in the lower part of Survey 5,132.  He was of Irish descent and a very intelligent man.  Like most men of his nationality, he was fond of whisky, and he usually gratified this propensity.  He was once a candidate for Justice of the Peace, probably before 1820, and his intemperate habits were urged against his election.  Patrick heard of it and at the polls promised if elected that he would thenceforth refrain from the use of liquor.  His popularity won for him the election and he kept his promise and made an excellent officer.  He followed shoe-making in connection with farming and afterward removed to Amity, where he died in 1810.  His wife, who was Polly Lee, died in 1856, at the home of her grandson, David McClung.  Their two children were Jane, who married Reuben Cook, and Margaret who married Joseph McClung.