“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


THOMAS CONAN,  merchant, Jefferson; son of Daniel Conan, of this 
place; came to Watertown with his parents in 1849; thence to Fox Lake, 
Dodge Co., Wis.  Enlisted in Dodge Co. in November, 1861, in Co. A, 
17th W.V.I., and belonged to the 2d Brigade, 3d Division of the 17th 
Army Corps; was in all the skirmishes and battles of this division, from 
Shiloh through the entire campaign of Sherman’s march to the sea.  Mr. 
C. first held the office of Second Sergeant, and in 1864, at Rome, Ga., 
was promoted to the office of Second Lieutenant, and afterward to First 
Lieutenant; was then detached from the regiment and was a member of 
Brig. Gen. R. K. Scott’s staff till the army reached Pocotaligo, S.C., 
where he was given command of Co. A, 17th W.V.I., which position he 
held till mustered out at Louisville, Ky., in July, 1865.  He has been in 
the mercantile business in Jefferson since 1867.  Mr. C. was in the drug 
business in Jefferson one year before commencing in the mercantile 
trade.  His father Daniel was one of the first men in the mercantile trade 
in Watertown.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)