court in what was afterward known as Essex county. He organized the first Puritan church at Cape Ann. In 1(540, his son Roger, "being the first-born child in Salem," received from the town a grant of forty acres of land. In 1671 he peti- tioned the legislature to change the name of Bev- erly, "because (wee being but a smale place) it hath caused on us a constant nickname of beggar- ly, being in the mouths of many."
CONCANEN, Luke, bishop, b. in Ireland ; d. in
Naples, Italy, in 1810. He was educated in Rome,
where he acquired so much influence that ecclesi-
astical appointments in Ireland were usually de-
termined by his advice. He was also interested in
tlie missions of America, and to some extent the
founder of the Dominican convent of St. Rose in
Kentucky, which he sustained by his contributions
to the end of his life. In 1808 he was created first
bishop of New York, and was also commissioned
by the pope to carry the pallium to Archbishop
Carroll. As his attempt to sail for the United
States from Leghorn was frustrated by the dis-
turbed condition of the country, he went to Naples,
whence he expected to sail, but was arrested by
order of Murat, on the pretext that he was a Brit-
ish subject. He was imprisoned in the convent of
St. Dominic at Naples, and the hardships he en-
dured caused his death.
CONCHA, José Gutiérrez de la (coan'-cha),
mai-quis of Havana, Spanish soldier, b. in Cordova,
Argentine Republic, in 1809. He went to Spain
very young, entered the army, fought against the
revolutionary troops in South America, and after-
ward took part in the first Carlist war. In 1839
he was bre vetted lieutenant-general, and afterward
held the command of the Spanish cavalry. In
1850-'2 he was governor-general of Cuba. t)uring
this short administration occurred the invasion of
the island by an expedition that sailed from the
United States under command of Gen. Narciso
Lopez, who was defeated, captured, and executed
in Havana, 1 Sept., 1851. A few days before, 14
Aug., fifty of his followers were shot. In 1854
Concha was again appointed governor-general of
Cuba, which post he retained until 1859, when he
returned to Spain, where he was appointed minis-
ter of war in 1863, and president of the senate in
1864. Queen Isabella appointed him prime minis-
ter just after the revolution broke out in Spain,
29 Sept., 1868. A third time he was appointed
governor-general in 1874, in the midst of the
Cuban insurrection ; but his administration lasted
only a few months. In 1886 he was elected pi'esi-
dent of the Spanish senate. Gen. Concha has
published " Ensayo sobre la Situacion Politica en
Cuba " (1860) ; " Memoria sobre la guerra de Cuba "
(1876) ; and memoii's of his first administration.
CONCHA TORO, Melchor (coan'-chah), Chili-
an statesman, b. in the city of Santiago, 19 June,
1823. He was wealthy, and devoted his knowledge
of law and financial matters to the service of Chili.
In 1864 he became a member of the chamber of
deputies, and in 1870 was elected to the senate,
becoming its vice-president. He was also minister
of finance in 1869 under Perez's administration,
and in 1886 he was again chosen senator. He has
written " Chile durante los anos de 1824 a 1828 "
(Santiago, 1864).
CONCILIO, Gennaro Luigi Vincenzo de, cler-
gyman, b. in Naples, Italy, 5 July, 1835 ; d. in Jer-
sey City, N. J., 22 March, 1898. He was educated
in Naples, and ordained deacon in 1857. During
the same year he entered the missionary college in
Genoa, with the intention of devoting his life to for-
eign missions. He was ordained priest in 1859, and
sent to the diocese of Newark, N. J., where, in
April, 1860, he became assistant rector of the
Church of Our Lady of Grace, in Hoboken. In
September, 1860, he was appointed professor of
dogmatic theology, logic, and metaphysics in
Seton Hall college. South Orange, N. J., but failing
health compelled him to resign this chair at the end
of the year. From 1861 till 1867 he was assistant
in St. Mary's church, Jersey City, and in 1867 was
made rector of St. Michael's in the same city. His
relations with the college have been maintained,
and he continues to be pro-synodal examiner in
theology, and on several occasions has taught
moral theology in the seminary. In Febniary,
1886, he was appointed, by Leo XIIL, Cameriere
Segreto to his holiness, a dignity that entitles the
person receiving it to be addressed as " very rever-
end monsignor." Monsignor Concilio has made a
special study of the summa of St. Thomas Aquinas,
and contributed frequent articles to the Catholic
journals, and has published " Catholicity and Pan-
theism " (1874) ; " The Knowledge of Mary " (New
York, 1878) ; and " Intellectual Philosophy " (1878).
CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de la, French
geographer, b. in Paris, 28 Jan., 1701 ; d. there, 4
Feb., 1774. He was educated at the University of
Paris, entered the army in 1719, and was distin-
guished at the siege of Rosas, but abandoned mili-
tary life to join an expedition whose object was to
explore the coasts of Asia and Africa. He visited
the Troad, Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Constantinople,
and in 1735, with Bouguer and others, was sent to
Peru by the Academy of sciences to measure an
arc of the meridian. While in South America he
also made observations on the use of caoutchouc
by the natives, and to him is ascribed the intro-
duction of the article into Europe; and he also
tried to introduce into France inoculation for
small-pox. He was the first to discover that the
deflection of a plumb-line by the attraction of a
mountain is a measurable quantity. He was made
a fellow of the Royal society of London in 1748,
and a member of the French academy in the year
1760. He published treatises on geography, natu-
ral history, and physics, and had some reputation
as a writer of verses. His works include " Rela-
tion abregee d'un voyage fait dans I'interieur de
I'Amerique Meridionale" (Paris, 1745), and "La
figure de la terre determinee par les observations
de MM. de la Condamine et Bouguer" (1749). See
Condorcet's " filoge de la Condamine."
CONDICT, Ira, clergyman, b. in Orange, N. J.,
21 Feb., 1764; d. in New Brunswick, N. J., 1 June,
1811. He was the son of a farmer, was gradu-
ated at Princeton in 1784, and afterward taught
at Monmouth, N. J., at the same time pursuing a
course of theological study. He was licensed to
preach by the presbytery of New Brunswick in
April, 1786, and ordained pastor of the churches at
Newton, Hardwick, and Shappenack, in November,
1787. In 1794 he was installed pastor of the Re-
formed Dutch church in New Brunswick, where he
remained until he died. It was chiefiy through his
efforts that Queen's (now Rutgers) college, which
had been closed for several years, was reopened in
1807. Under his leadership the trustees deter-
mined to raise, by the help of the Reformed
churches, $12,000 for the erection of a spacious
building and to open the college immediately. Dr.
Condict assumed the duties of president pro tein-
pore, and instructed the highest class. In 1809 he
was regularly appointed professor of moral phi-
losophy and vice-president, having declined the
presidency ; but the actual duties of the oflice were
performed by him since Dr. Livingston, the nominal
