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SAMUEL A. CONN, miller, Russellville, was born in July, 1857, in Brown County, Ohio. His parents are Robert and Mahala Conn, whose sketch appears in this work. After having received a rudimentary education, he attended, in 1878, for five months, Smith’s Commercial College, at Ripley, Ohio. In 1879, he attended for four months, Eastman’s Commercial College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In October, 1879, he married Miss Emma King, daughter of Thomas King; they have one child, Alfred K. Mr. Conn is the manager of the Russellville Steam Grist Mill. It is one finest in the county, being sixty feet long by forty wide, and contains four stories. The mill is furnished with two run of stone four feet in diameter for wheat, one for middlings, and one for corn, using the Smith and Keystone purifiers. In fact, the mill is supplied with all the latest improvements used in the new process of milling. The engine by which the machinery is run is of the Corliss pattern, double cut-off, the cylinder of which is twelve by thirty-four inches, and has a fifty-two inch five-flue boiler, twenty-two feet long. Mr. Conn has also bought a new portable saw-mill from Cooper Manufacturing Co., at Mount Vernon. The mill is of the standard quality, with a thirty feet carnage, three head-blocks, and running a fine, sixty-inch saw, with a sawing capacity of from six to ten thousand feet per day. This is run by a twenty horse-power boiler and engine combined, also made by the Cooper Manufacturing Co. He has also a set of Howe’s Standard Scales, with a weighing capacity of five tons. Mr. Conn, though a young man, has, like his father, the energy, industrious habits and perseverance, which are characteristics of our successful business men. He is of a clever, jovial disposition.