Milton C. Conner, M. D.

Since the completion of his medical course and his graduation from college, Dr. Conner has practiced his profession in Middletown, and the flattering success with which he has met is indicated by his constantly increasing practice. While he is skilled in the treatment of all diseases, his specialty has been diseases of the eye and ear, concerning which he is accurately informed, and in the treatment of which he has few superiors. He has an office in the Everett Building, on the corner of Main and North Streets; also at his residence. In addition to his general practice, he was for four years Health Officer of Middletown, and for one year served as City Physician.

The Conner family originated in Ireland, and was first represented in America by the Doctor’s grandfather William Conner, who emigrated to this country and settled in the Town of Wallkill, Orange County, where he was variously employed as a mason, distiller and farmer. His death occurred when he was about seventy years of age. The father of our subject, Hezekiah, was born in the Town of Wallkill, where he spent his entire life, following the occupations of mason and farmer. In religious views he was a Presbyterian, while politically he supported the Republican Party. In 1889, at the age of eighty-one, while on his way to the city one day, he was thrown from the wagon and run over by the team, sustaining fatal injuries.

Three times married, Hezekiah Conner had two children by his first marriage and five by his second, for of them surviving; his third union was childless. His second wife, our subject’s mother, was Caroline, daughter of Phineas Corwin, a farmer of the town of Wallkill. She died at the age of forty-six years. Milton C. is the youngest of the family, and was born on the home farm near Scotchtown, town of Wallkill, September 6, 1853. In boyhood he attended the Wallkill Academy for a time, but was obliged to temporarily discontinue his studies on account of his father having broken his leg, which rendered it necessary for him to manage the home place. He then entered the Ft. Edward Institute, and later was a student in the Cazenovia Seminary, spending two years in each institution. Meantime he taught school at Ft. Ann, N. Y., for one year.

Having resolved to become a physician, our subject entered the Detroit Medical College, in which his brother was a professor. Two years were spent there, after which he became a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, from which, after two years, he was graduated, in 1883, with the degree of M. D. Upon completing his studies he opened an office in Middletown, where he has since had charge of a general practice. He is examining surgeon for numerous insurance companies, and is one of the most popular physicians of the city. Interested in everything that pertains to the science, he holds membership in the New York State Medical Association, and is serving on the Executive Committee of the Fifth District Branch of that organization. He is also identified with the American Medical Association, and was a delegate to the conventions of that body held at Detroit, Milwaukee, San Francisco and Baltimore.

The marriage of Dr. Connor took place in this city and united him with Frances Adelaide Cox, who was born in Bloomingburg, N. Y., being the daughter of the late George Cox, formerly an attorney of Middletown. Socially the Doctor is connected with Hoffman Lodge No. 412, F. & A. M., and Midland Chapter No. 240, R. A. M. He is intelligently posted upon public questions, and believes that the policy of the Republican party is best calculated to advance the welfare of the people; hence he gives it his unqualified support.