Howard J. Conover

Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1850, Wood­stone, New Jer­sey.
Died: June 29, 1922, El­mer, New Jer­sey.
Buried: Chest­nut Grove Cem­e­te­ry, El­mer, New Jer­sey.

Son of Eli­sha Con­o­ver and Eliz­a­beth Van Me­ter, Howard at­tend­ed Pen­ning­ton Sem­in­a­ry, Pennington, New Jersey, and Dick­in­son Coll­ege, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He be­came a Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal min­is­ter in 1874, and in his lat­er years, joined the Hymn Writ­ers’ and Com­pos­ers’ So­ci­e­ty in New York Ci­ty.

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