a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Herkimer County, N.Y., February 19, 1786. He joined the Church at the age of eighteen; removed to Ohio in 1819; began preaching there in 1820, amid the hardships of a wilderness life, and in 1835 was admitted into the Ohio Conference. He became superannuated in 1871, but continued to preach until his decease, December 27, 1873. Mr. Conant was a man of good natural abilities, well versed in Methodism, of genuine cheerful temperament, and untarnished life. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874, page 109.