Truman H. Conner graduated from the Law Department of Trinity University in 1876. He was active in his profession from the spring of 1877 until July 1887, when he was appointed Judge of the 42nd Judicial District, composed of Eastland, and other counties by Texas Governor L.S. Ross, and was re-elected three times to the office. In 1898, Judge Conner was elected Chief Justice of the 2nd Supreme Judicial District of Texas, composed of 95 counties, including Eastland.
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Ft. Worth Star Telegram October 26, 1933
T. H. CONNER, JURIST, DIES AT TEMPLE HOSPITAL
Chief Justist Truman H. Conner, 84, a member of the Second Court of Civil Appeals since 1898, died in the Scott and White Hospital at Temple at 10:40 o'clock Thursday morning. Members of the family were at the bedside.
He was stricken last Saturday at the hospital where he had gone for a clinical examination. He had been in ill health since last Winter when he suffered an attack of influenza.
Judge Conner rounded out 46 years of continued service as a judge on July 4, 1933. With a single exception he had served longer on the bench than any other man known of in the United States. Chief Justice Johnston of the Kansas Supreme Court has held his position for 49 years.
Born in Peru, Indiana, he came to Texas when a youth with his parents. He was educated at Marvin College, Waxahachie during 1873-74. Later he attended Trinith University, then located in Tennessee, graduating from the law department in the class of 1876.
He began his practice of law in Eastland and in 1887 was appointed by Governor Ross as judge of the Fourty-second District Court. He was elected chief justice of the Second Court of Civil Appeals in 1898 and had served continuously in that position since that date.
Judge Conner was married to Miss Sallie Jones, Cooke County, in 1882. He was married a second time to Miss Ophelia Polk, daughter of Judge J. H. Brigham, district judge, Bastrop Louisiana. Later he married Miss Mozella Eleanora Dry, Fort Worth, who was well known in West Texas club circles before she moved from her former home in Colorado to Fort Worth.
As a hobby, Judge Conner has been interested for more than 30 years in legends of buried Spanish gold in Eastland County. In company with the late Judge Black of that city he made several trips in quest of the treasure. He and Judge Black also made expeditions into Southwest Texas in quest of buried gold. They followed a map supposed to show the way to the gold cached near the Pecos River but they never found the landmarks, the markings having been worn away by the vagaries of the weather.
In recent years Judge Conner talked of taking up the trail again for the treasure, which were mentioned by J. Frank Dobie in "Coronnado's Children."
Members of his immediate family include his wife; his son, George M. Conner, an attorney of Fort Worth; three daughters, Mrs. T.R. James, Fort Worth; Mrs. James Daily, El Paso, and Miss Margaret Conner, Albuquerque, New Mexico; a brother, Earl Conner, Eastland, and a sister, Mrs. Maude Coleman, Miles.
The body will be brought here this afternoon. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Harrison & Cole. Burial will probably be at Eastland.
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Ft. Worth Star Telegram October 26, 1933
T. H. CONNER, JURIST, DIES AT TEMPLE HOSPITAL
Chief Justist Truman H. Conner, 84, a member of the Second Court of Civil Appeals since 1898, died in the Scott and White Hospital at Temple at 10:40 o'clock Thursday morning. Members of the family were at the bedside.
He was stricken last Saturday at the hospital where he had gone for a clinical examination. He had been in ill health since last Winter when he suffered an attack of influenza.
Judge Conner rounded out 46 years of continued service as a judge on July 4, 1933. With a single exception he had served longer on the bench than any other man known of in the United States. Chief Justice Johnston of the Kansas Supreme Court has held his position for 49 years.
Born in Peru, Indiana, he came to Texas when a youth with his parents. He was educated at Marvin College, Waxahachie during 1873-74. Later he attended Trinith University, then located in Tennessee, graduating from the law department in the class of 1876.
He began his practice of law in Eastland and in 1887 was appointed by Governor Ross as judge of the Fourty-second District Court. He was elected chief justice of the Second Court of Civil Appeals in 1898 and had served continuously in that position since that date.
Judge Conner was married to Miss Sallie Jones, Cooke County, in 1882. He was married a second time to Miss Ophelia Polk, daughter of Judge J. H. Brigham, district judge, Bastrop Louisiana. Later he married Miss Mozella Eleanora Dry, Fort Worth, who was well known in West Texas club circles before she moved from her former home in Colorado to Fort Worth.
As a hobby, Judge Conner has been interested for more than 30 years in legends of buried Spanish gold in Eastland County. In company with the late Judge Black of that city he made several trips in quest of the treasure. He and Judge Black also made expeditions into Southwest Texas in quest of buried gold. They followed a map supposed to show the way to the gold cached near the Pecos River but they never found the landmarks, the markings having been worn away by the vagaries of the weather.
In recent years Judge Conner talked of taking up the trail again for the treasure, which were mentioned by J. Frank Dobie in "Coronnado's Children."
Members of his immediate family include his wife; his son, George M. Conner, an attorney of Fort Worth; three daughters, Mrs. T.R. James, Fort Worth; Mrs. James Daily, El Paso, and Miss Margaret Conner, Albuquerque, New Mexico; a brother, Earl Conner, Eastland, and a sister, Mrs. Maude Coleman, Miles.
The body will be brought here this afternoon. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Harrison & Cole. Burial will probably be at Eastland.
Truman H. Conner graduated from the Law Department of Trinity University in 1876. He was active in his profession from the spring of 1877 until July 1887, when he was appointed Judge of the 42nd Judicial District, composed of Eastland, and other counties by Texas Governor L.S. Ross, and was re-elected three times to the office. In 1898, Judge Conner was elected Chief Justice of the 2nd Supreme Judicial District of Texas, composed of 95 counties, including Eastland.
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Ft. Worth Star Telegram October 26, 1933
T. H. CONNER, JURIST, DIES AT TEMPLE HOSPITAL
Chief Justist Truman H. Conner, 84, a member of the Second Court of Civil Appeals since 1898, died in the Scott and White Hospital at Temple at 10:40 o'clock Thursday morning. Members of the family were at the bedside.
He was stricken last Saturday at the hospital where he had gone for a clinical examination. He had been in ill health since last Winter when he suffered an attack of influenza.
Judge Conner rounded out 46 years of continued service as a judge on July 4, 1933. With a single exception he had served longer on the bench than any other man known of in the United States. Chief Justice Johnston of the Kansas Supreme Court has held his position for 49 years.
Born in Peru, Indiana, he came to Texas when a youth with his parents. He was educated at Marvin College, Waxahachie during 1873-74. Later he attended Trinith University, then located in Tennessee, graduating from the law department in the class of 1876.
He began his practice of law in Eastland and in 1887 was appointed by Governor Ross as judge of the Fourty-second District Court. He was elected chief justice of the Second Court of Civil Appeals in 1898 and had served continuously in that position since that date.
Judge Conner was married to Miss Sallie Jones, Cooke County, in 1882. He was married a second time to Miss Ophelia Polk, daughter of Judge J. H. Brigham, district judge, Bastrop Louisiana. Later he married Miss Mozella Eleanora Dry, Fort Worth, who was well known in West Texas club circles before she moved from her former home in Colorado to Fort Worth.
As a hobby, Judge Conner has been interested for more than 30 years in legends of buried Spanish gold in Eastland County. In company with the late Judge Black of that city he made several trips in quest of the treasure. He and Judge Black also made expeditions into Southwest Texas in quest of buried gold. They followed a map supposed to show the way to the gold cached near the Pecos River but they never found the landmarks, the markings having been worn away by the vagaries of the weather.
In recent years Judge Conner talked of taking up the trail again for the treasure, which were mentioned by J. Frank Dobie in "Coronnado's Children."
Members of his immediate family include his wife; his son, George M. Conner, an attorney of Fort Worth; three daughters, Mrs. T.R. James, Fort Worth; Mrs. James Daily, El Paso, and Miss Margaret Conner, Albuquerque, New Mexico; a brother, Earl Conner, Eastland, and a sister, Mrs. Maude Coleman, Miles.
The body will be brought here this afternoon. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Harrison & Cole. Burial will probably be at Eastland.
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Ft. Worth Star Telegram October 26, 1933
T. H. CONNER, JURIST, DIES AT TEMPLE HOSPITAL
Chief Justist Truman H. Conner, 84, a member of the Second Court of Civil Appeals since 1898, died in the Scott and White Hospital at Temple at 10:40 o'clock Thursday morning. Members of the family were at the bedside.
He was stricken last Saturday at the hospital where he had gone for a clinical examination. He had been in ill health since last Winter when he suffered an attack of influenza.
Judge Conner rounded out 46 years of continued service as a judge on July 4, 1933. With a single exception he had served longer on the bench than any other man known of in the United States. Chief Justice Johnston of the Kansas Supreme Court has held his position for 49 years.
Born in Peru, Indiana, he came to Texas when a youth with his parents. He was educated at Marvin College, Waxahachie during 1873-74. Later he attended Trinith University, then located in Tennessee, graduating from the law department in the class of 1876.
He began his practice of law in Eastland and in 1887 was appointed by Governor Ross as judge of the Fourty-second District Court. He was elected chief justice of the Second Court of Civil Appeals in 1898 and had served continuously in that position since that date.
Judge Conner was married to Miss Sallie Jones, Cooke County, in 1882. He was married a second time to Miss Ophelia Polk, daughter of Judge J. H. Brigham, district judge, Bastrop Louisiana. Later he married Miss Mozella Eleanora Dry, Fort Worth, who was well known in West Texas club circles before she moved from her former home in Colorado to Fort Worth.
As a hobby, Judge Conner has been interested for more than 30 years in legends of buried Spanish gold in Eastland County. In company with the late Judge Black of that city he made several trips in quest of the treasure. He and Judge Black also made expeditions into Southwest Texas in quest of buried gold. They followed a map supposed to show the way to the gold cached near the Pecos River but they never found the landmarks, the markings having been worn away by the vagaries of the weather.
In recent years Judge Conner talked of taking up the trail again for the treasure, which were mentioned by J. Frank Dobie in "Coronnado's Children."
Members of his immediate family include his wife; his son, George M. Conner, an attorney of Fort Worth; three daughters, Mrs. T.R. James, Fort Worth; Mrs. James Daily, El Paso, and Miss Margaret Conner, Albuquerque, New Mexico; a brother, Earl Conner, Eastland, and a sister, Mrs. Maude Coleman, Miles.
The body will be brought here this afternoon. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Harrison & Cole. Burial will probably be at Eastland.
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