Conner married Elizabeth Denniston of Albany, New York.[3]
He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Waterville, Maine (at that time a district of Massachusetts), in 1810.
Conner served in the War of 1812. Conner was first a major of the Twenty-first Infantry. In the beginning of 1813 Conner served as aide-de-camp to General Henry Dearborn.[3] He was one of the American officers who accepted the British surrender at the Battle of York.[2]
He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry March 12, 1813.
He resigned July 14, 1814.
He resumed the practice of law in Waterville, Maine.
↑Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1912), Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the College History Vol VI, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, p.24
123Coues, Elliott (1895), The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike: to headwaters of the Mississippi River, Volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Francis. P. Harper, p.ciii
123Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1912), Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the College History Vol VI, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, p.23
12Heitman, Francis Bernard (1890), Historical register of the United States Army: from its organization, Washington, D.C.: The National Tribune, p.60
↑Powell, William Henry (1900), List of officers of the army of the United States from 1779 to 1900, New York, N.Y.: L. R. Hamersly & Co., p.53
↑Heitman, Francis Bernard (1890), Historical register of the United States Army: from its organization, Washington, D.C.: The National Tribune, p.53
