Background
Conner, Eli Taylor was born on March 1, 1864 in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Isaac and Anna Elizabeth (Hawk) Conner.
Conner, Eli Taylor was born on March 1, 1864 in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Isaac and Anna Elizabeth (Hawk) Conner.
Educational public schools E. Mauch Chunk, 1870-1879.
Eli Taylor. Operator and assistant chief clerk C.R.R. of New Jersey, Mauch Chunk, 1879-1882. Rodman, chainman, transitman, engineer and assistant superintendent Sandy Run, Pond Creek Harleigh Collieries of M. S. Kemmerer & Company, 1882-1888. Superintendent Mount Jessup (Pennsylvania) Coal Limited company, Florence Coal Company, Dupont, Pennsylvania, and Spring Brook Coal Company, Moosic, Pennsylvania, 1888-1896.
Superintendent Shamokin Division Lehigh Valley Coal Company, 1896, Wyoming Division, 1897-1902. Appointed general superintendent Webster Coal & Coke Company, 1902, merged with Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Company of which was general manager until 1907. General manager New River Collieries Company of West Virginia, 1907-1909.
Consultant coal mining engineer in Philadelphia, New York City and Scranton, Pennsylvania, since 1909.
Married Florence Isabel Towar, June 30, 1887 (died 1889). Married second, Caroline Yarnall Minshall, September 21, 1893. Children: Margaret Yarnall (Mistress Henry H. Strater), Walter Leisenring, Caroline Minshall.