Richard Field Conover (November 20, 1858 – June 5, 1930) was an American
tennis
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player, lawyer and real estate manager.
Life
Conover was born in
South Amboy, New Jersey
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Declaration of Independence
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.
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
James Dwight (July 14, 1852, France – July 13, 1917) was an American tennis player who was known as the "Founding Father of American Tennis".
Biography
Dwight won the first recorded tournament in the U.S. (and probably in the world, before the ...
.
After graduating from
Princeton University
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and
Columbia Law School
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, he practiced law at
Newark
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Places Canada
* Niagara-on-the ...
for a short while before moving to
Texas
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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).
In 1900, Conover moved to
Bay City, Michigan
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, where he concentrated on managing his wife's real estates in
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* Bay County, Florida, United States
* Bay County, Michigan, United States
* Baicheng County
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.
In the 1920s, he lived at
New Port Richey, Florida
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History
By ...
. He died on June 5, 1930, at
Charleston, South Carolina
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