Richard Field Conover
{{short description|American tennis player, lawyer, and real estate manager}}
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Richard Field Conover (November 20, 1858 – June 5, 1930) was an American tennis player, lawyer and real estate manager.
Life
Conover was born in South Amboy, New Jersey, the son of Francis Stevens Conover and Helen Stockton Field. He was a grandson of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
As a tennis player, Conover took part in the first stagings of the US Championships in between 1881 and 1884. In 1883 he reached the semifinals which he lost to James Dwight.{{cite web |url=http://www.tennisarchives.com/player.php?playerid=5623 |title=Richard Field Conover |website=tennisarchives.com |accessdate=11 October 2013}}
After graduating from Princeton University and Columbia Law School, he practiced law at Newark for a short while before moving to Texas where he engaged in ranching. Conover there met his wife, Cornelia Fitzhugh, whom he married on September 11, 1895. They had three children: Carroll Fitzhugh Conover (b. circa June 1896), Helen Field Conover (b. 21 March 1898) and Alida Van Rensselaer Conover (b. 6 February 1900).{{cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~conover/connet/connet-o/p1291.htm#i129007 |title=Richard Field Conover |website=ancestry.com |accessdate=11 October 2013}}
In 1900, Conover moved to Bay City, Michigan, where he concentrated on managing his wife's real estates in Bay County.
In the 1920s, he lived at New Port Richey, Florida. He died on June 5, 1930, at Charleston, South Carolina, at age 71.
References
- {{cite web |url=http://bay-journal.com/bay/1he/writings/conover-richard-f.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519071053/http://bay-journal.com/bay/1he/writings/conover-richard-f.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=May 19, 2011 |title=Richard Field Conover |website=bay-journal.com | date=December 2010 |accessdate=11 October 2013}}
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Category:Columbia Law School alumni
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Category:Sportspeople from New Port Richey, Florida