Frederick A. Conkling
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Frederick Augustus Conkling (August 22, 1816 - September 18, 1891) was a United States Representative from New York. A son of U.S. Representative Alfred Conkling and a brother of Representative and U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling, Frederick Conkling was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery County. He pursued classical studies and attended The Albany Academy. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York City, and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1854, 1859, and 1860. He organized the Eighty-fourth Regiment of New York Volunteers in June 1861 and became its colonel; he served throughout the Shenandoah campaign of the Civil War. Conkling was one of the organizers of the West Side Savings Bank of New York City and served as its president for many years; subsequently he became president of the Aetna Fire Insurance Co., of Hartford, Connecticut and served until its dissolution in 1880.
Conkling was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress, holding office from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress and was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of New York City in 1868. He authored numerous pamphlets on political, commercial, and scientific subjects. Conkling died in New York City in 1891; interment was in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
