Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

L. M. CONLEY.  Grant County is especially proud of her farmers, and well
she may be.  Being, in the first place, a purely agricultural county,
with no manufacturing establishments and no mineral interests, she has 
to look to her farmers for practically all of her wealth.  That she has
as good a class of farmers as there is in the state within her borders 
is certainly true.  There is no better example of the practical 
up-to-date farmer than L. M. Conley, who lives some two miles east of 
this place.  He is a son of Calvin Conley and Mrs. Malissa Conley, and 
was born in the county of Boone October 27, 1854.  His father was 
married twice and he is a child of the last wife, being one of eight 
children born to that marriage, and the oldest boy in the lot.  His 
birth-place was near Elliston Station, and there, on his father's farm, 
young Conley grew up.  He obtained a good common school education, and 
began life as a school teacher, teaching for four years under a 
first-class certificate and giving universal satisfaction wherever he 
taught.  February 4, 1879, he was united in marriage to Miss Malissa 
Bennette, daughter of James Bennette, and to this union three children 
have been born--one boy and two girls--Lester L., Dena Pearl, and Anna 
E.  Mr. Conley went to house-keeping when married at the place where he 
now resides, and has lived there ever since.  He owns 115 acres of fine 
land and a beautiful home, and is surrounded by all of the conveniences 
and comforts of life.  He is an active member of the Christian Church 
at Fairview, and has been an elder in the church for many years, and 
has also been the secretary and treasurer of the church for fifteen 
years.  He believes in giving his children a good education, and has 
given them every advantage, his youngest daughter having taught school 
last year under a first-class certificate with decided success.  Mr. 
Conley is engaged in general farming, live stock and tobacco raising,
and make a specialty of his apiary.  He has forty colonies of fine bees,
and sells every year a great quantity of honey and a good many swarms
and queens.  His bee stock is the finest to be found in the state.

Conley Bennette
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Boone-KY

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