Headstone photos taken at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, NE, 3-22-2012
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Who's Who in Nebraska in 1940
CONANT, HARLEY: President Hotel Co; b Cherokee, Ia July 11, 1876; s of George Calvin Conant-Mary Helen Batterson; ed Lancaster Co; m Ellen Metcalfe June 8, 1927 Omaha; 1889-1910 branch mbr McReynolds & Co, grain dlrs, Kansas City & Omaha; 1910- in hotel bus, Omaha, pres Conant Hotel Co; first owner hotel of 60 rooms, later owner & opr many years Congress, Sanford, Henshaw & Conant Hotels, sold all except Sanford, renamed Conant-Sanford; during Sp-Amer War enl Apr 1898 Co G 2nd Neb volunteers, disch sgt Oct 1898; pres Omaha Hotel Assn; past pres Neb Hotel Assn; Amer Hotel Assn; dir Neb Power Co; C of C, past mbr exec com; Omaha Country Club; Omaha Athletic Club; off & res Conant-Sanford Hotel, Omaha.
Headstone photos taken at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, NE, 3-22-2012
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Who's Who in Nebraska in 1940
CONANT, HARLEY: President Hotel Co; b Cherokee, Ia July 11, 1876; s of George Calvin Conant-Mary Helen Batterson; ed Lancaster Co; m Ellen Metcalfe June 8, 1927 Omaha; 1889-1910 branch mbr McReynolds & Co, grain dlrs, Kansas City & Omaha; 1910- in hotel bus, Omaha, pres Conant Hotel Co; first owner hotel of 60 rooms, later owner & opr many years Congress, Sanford, Henshaw & Conant Hotels, sold all except Sanford, renamed Conant-Sanford; during Sp-Amer War enl Apr 1898 Co G 2nd Neb volunteers, disch sgt Oct 1898; pres Omaha Hotel Assn; past pres Neb Hotel Assn; Amer Hotel Assn; dir Neb Power Co; C of C, past mbr exec com; Omaha Country Club; Omaha Athletic Club; off & res Conant-Sanford Hotel, Omaha.
Gravesite Details
Buried here are Mary Helen Batterson Conant, husband George Calvin, and children/spouses: Elsie Conant/William Giller, Harley Conant/Ellen Metcalfe, Calvin Conant and Homer Conant. Daughters Ethel (Harwood) & Grace (Rogers) were cremated.
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