Martin F. Conway
Martin Franklin Conway was a U.S. congressman, consul to France, abolitionist, and advocate of the FreeState movement in Kansas.
Conway was born in Harford County, Maryland, the son of Dr. W. D. Conway and Frances Conway. His father was an Exploring Surveyor in the United States Navy, and a slaveowner. Conway learned the printers trade in Baltimore after leaving school at fourteen and became an organizer of the National Typographical Union. Find more about formation of the union from the book Origin and Progress of the Typographical Union by John McVicar, pub 1891. Do a google book search and see pagefor M F Conways election as chairman of the executive committee at the first national convention of journeyman printers of the United States. He married Emily Dykes in 1851, and studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1852.
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