Hon. Isaac McConihe

Isaac McConihe, son of John McConihe and Sarah Moor, was born in Merrimack, New Hampshire on August 22, 1787. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1812 and went, that same year, to Troy, New York and entered the law office of Stephen Ross, whose partner he became on his admission to the bar in 1815. He practiced law there in Troy for more than fifty years.

He married, in 1826, with SARAH SOPHIA STRONG, daughter of Hezekiah W. Strong and Martha Dwight. Her father was a graduate from Yale College in 1800, and was one of the founders of Amherst College.

Children were: Thomas Jefferson 8/18/1827-8/23/1827), Sarah (8/23/1828), Isaac (3/31/1830), William (7/6/1832), John (9/1/1834), Samuel (9/8/1836), Thornton (9/26/1839), Alanson Douglas (11/16/1841), Philanda Wells (1/2/1845), Mary (12/20/1845), and Alonzo (6/8/1850-5/5/1851).

McConihe was appointed, at different times, to many offices. In 1828 he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas of Rensselaer County (the youngest judge who ever sat on that bench), in 1831 county treasurer, in 132 post-master of Troy (which office he held ofr 10 years in succession, being appointed by President Jackson, and for the third time by President Van Buren).

By the time of his death on November 1, 1867, he was the oldest bank director in Troy, and the oldest member of the bar of Rensselaer County. For many years he was a railroad director, president of the Troy Lyceum of Natural History, trustee of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and of the Troy Orphan Asylum, and senior wardem of St. Paul's Church (Episcopal).

• 1850 Census: Isaac (62) b. New Hampshire; with wife Sarah S. (45, b. Mass), and children: Isaac (20), William (18), John (14), Samuel (13), Thornton (11), Alanson (9), Mary C. (5), and Andrew J. (1).
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/bio123.htm
• http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/state/hampsh/homes/strong.html (I find this article especially intruiging since it mentions BOTH "Mr. Baldwin" in ref. to Thankful Strong (who is Jonathan Baldwin, brother of Joseph Baldwin...my direct ancestor) AND further down the Hon. Isaac McCONIHE...who leads to my grandmother COPP (who married another BALDWIN descendant, also from Joseph Baldwin).