Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

F. M. CONAWAY, one of the most enterprising and successful farmers in Bald
Knob Precinct, was born in Franklin County August 2, 1831, and has always
lived in the county.  He is a son of Jesse P. and Susan M. (Gloor) Conaway.
His father was born in Fayette County, Ky., and was a son of Peter Conaway;
his mother was born in Virginia, and was a daughter of Rodda Gloor.  F. M.
Conaway first learned blacksmithing, but in 1855 was employed on a steam-
boat on the Kentucky River, running from Frankfort to Louisville, Ky.  He
started at the very bottom and by industry worked up to the position of
second mate.  He was on the river two years, but had to quit on account of
failing health, and was next employed at the Kentucky penitentiary as
inside keeper, buying and selling material and provision one year, when he
resigned to open two blacksmith shops at the Forks of Elkhorn, Franklin
County.  He was here engaged until 1861, but in 1858 was employed by the
Government as boss of repairing the lock and dam at No. 5, thirteen miles
above Frankfort on the Kentucky River.  He next went into the saw mill
business, was in that three years, and in 1872 formed a partnership with
Kernann & Maborey in the same business, and also ran seven four-horse teams
until 1864; then bought a farm of 103 acres, and commenced farming and
raising, buying and selling stock.  Mr. Conaway now makes a specialty of
raising tobacco, and it is given up that he can raise more tobacco and
better on an acre than any man in the county.  In 1882 he went back to the
Kentucky penitentiary as agent, selling the articles manufactured inside
the walls, and remained until 1884.  He then returned to the farm, and in
the same year was elected president of the Frankfort and Flatcreek
Turnpike, but in 1885 resigned to take the contract of keeping the pike
in repair; he held this contract one year, and then was re-elected
president of the Plumb Branch and Bald Knob Turnpike Company.  He is a
Democrat and quite a politician, having been delegate to the State and
county conventions a number of times.  December 22, 1851, he married Ann M.
Conaway, of Scott County, and has had eight children born to him: John C.,
who married Agnes Cook and had one child, Walter; Lee, who married James
Merchant; Frank M.; Alice; Ella; Mary C.; Ben. D.; and Lizzie.  Mr.
Conaway's wife and children are members of the Christian Church.

Conaway Gloor Cook Merchant Kernann Maborey
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Scott-KY Fayette-KY VA

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