CONWAY, Henry Wharton, (cousin of Ambrose Hendley Sevier), a Delegate
from the Territory of Arkansas; born near Greeneville, Greene County,
Tenn., March 18, 1793; educated by private tutors; enlisted as an
ensign in the War of 1812 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1813; clerk
in the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., in 1817; moved to
Missouri Territory in 1818 and to Arkansas Territory in 1820; receiver
of public moneys in 1820 and 1821; elected a Delegate to the
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses and served from March
4, 1823, until his death near Arkansas Post, Ark., then the Territorial
seat of government, November 9, 1827; interment in Arkansas Post
Cemetery. |