president, confined himself to his theological pro- fessorship. Dr. Condict was mainly instrumental in the removal of the theological seminary to New Brunswick. His exertions to obtain funds for the college, and his labors as professor and executive head of the institution, in addition to his duties as pastor of one of the largest churches of the denomi- nation, hastened his death.
CONDICT, John, senator, b. in 1755; d. in
Orange, N. J., 4 May, 18a4 He received a public-
school education, and served in the Revolutionary
army as a surgeon. He was a member of the New
Jersey legislature, was chosen to congress as a
democrat, and served from 1799 till 1803, when he
was elected U. S. senator, serving till 1817.
CONDICT, Lewis, congressman, b. in Morris-
town, N. J., in March, 1773; d. there, 20 May,
1862. After receiving a liberal education, he
studied medicine, received his diploma from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1794, and began
practice at Morristown. He was high sheriff of
Morris covinty before 1800, and from 1805 till 1810
was a member of the legislature, serving the last
two years as speaker of the house. He was one of
the commission appointed in 1807 to settle the
boundary between New Jersey and New York, and
was chosen to congress as a whig, serving from 4
Nov., 1811, till 3 March, 1817, and again from 3
Dec, 1821, till 2 March, 1833. He declined re-
election, and was afterward a presidential elector
on the Harrison ticket in 1840.
CONDICT, Silas, congressman, b. in Newark, N. J., in 1777 ; d. there, 29 Nov., 1861. His father, Silas, was a delegate to congress under the old con- federation from 1781 till 1784. The younger Con- dict was graduated at Princeton in 1795, was a member of the New Jersey legislature for several years, and elected to congress as a Clay demo- crat, serving from 5 Dec, 1831, till 2 March, 1833. He was a candidate for re-election, but defeated by F. S. Schenck, a Jackson democrat, by 502 majority. He was a delegate to the State constitutional con- vention of 1844, and a presidential elector on the Fillmore ticket in 1856. He was for many years president of the Newark banking company.
CONDIE, David Francis, physician, b. in
Philadelphia, Pa., 12 May, 1796; d. in Delaware
county, Pa., 31 March, 1875. He received his medi-
cal diploma from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1818, and became prominent in his profession.
He published an abridged edition, with notes, of
Thomas's " Practice of Medicine " (Philadelphia,
1817) ; " Course of Examination for Medical Stu-
dents" (2d ed., 1824); "Catechism of Health"
(1831); "Treatise on Epidemic Cholera," in con-
nection with Dr. John Bell (1832) ; and " Diseases
of Children " (6th ed.. enlarged, 1868). Dr. Condie
also edited Churchill's " Diseases of Women," and
contributed largelv to medical journals.
CONDORCANQUI, José Gabriel (con-dor-
ean'-ke), also called Tupac Amaru or Aymaru,
American Spaniard, who, having been ill treated
by a magistrate of Lima, attempted the redress of
his own grievances, and the oppressions of the
Indians, by exciting an insurrection in 1780. He
was artful and intrepid, and, to conciliate the
Indians, assumed the name of the Inca Tupac
Amaru, professing a design to restore the ancient
dynasty of Peru. Being a cacique of the province
of Tinta, under pretext of celebrating Charles
III.'s birthday with a banquet, he invited the
governor of the province, Antonio Arriaga, who
at once was imprisoned, and hanged on 6 Nov.
JHis plan was at first successful ; and, after a con-
test of three years, he was hailed Inca of Peru,
But he became obnoxious to the Spanish settlers,
and troops were sent against him. Yet the re-
bellion gained ground, being assisted by nearly
60,000 Indians, who murdered men and women and
committed revolting atrocities. Finally, the eiforts
of the Indians proving too feeble, Condorcanqui
and other leaders of the revolt were deserted by
their followers, taken, and put to death, with no
less cruelty than they had practised against the
Spaniards. His two sons, his wife, another Indian
woman, who was the mother of his son Hipolito,
and his uncle, Francisco Tupac Amaru, were all
executed at Cuzco on 18 May, 1781.
CONE, Spencer Houghton, clergyman, b. in
Princeton, N. J., 30 April, 1785 ; d. 28 Aug., 1855.
At the age of twelve he entered the freshman class
at Princeton, but the sickness of his father obliged
him to relinquish his studies when only fourteen.
At sixteen he was master in a school at Burlington.
He soon removed to Philadelphia, and associated
himself in teaching with Dr. Abercrombie, principal
of an academy. Finding his salary insufficient for
the family dependent on him, he at first resolved
to study law, but after some preparation for the
bar abandoned this purpose, and turned to the
stage, though this step was contrary to his own
tastes as well as opposed to the wishes of his devout
mother. He appeared in July, 1805, as Achmet in
the tragedy of " Mahomet," and subsequently acted
with success in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Alex-
andria. His profession, distasteful to him from
the first, and adopted only from necessity, soon be-
came disgusting. In 1812 he entered the office of
the Baltimore " American " as treasurer and book-
keeper. Soon afterward, in connection with his
brother-in-law, he purchased and published the
Baltimore " Whig," whereupon he abandoned the
stage. He was converted in November, 1813, and
baptized, 4 Feb., 1814, into the fellowship of a
Baptist church. Having obtained a clerkship in
the treasury department at Washington, he re-
moved to that city, where he soon began preaching
with remarkable success. In 1815-6 he was elected
chaplain of the house of representatives. After
seven years spent with a small church at Alex-
andria, he was called to the Oliver street church.
New York, where he remained for eighteen years.
He then became pastor of the 1st Baptist church,
in which relation he continued until his death. In
1832 the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him
by Princeton, and the same year he was chosen
president of the Baptist triennial convention, and
was re-elected until 1841. From 1837 till 1850 he
was president of the American and foi-eign Bible
society. On the formation of the American Bible
union, he was made its president, and so continued
until his death. At the zenith of his career he was
probably the most popular and influential Baptist
minister in the United States,
CONEY, Jabez, manufacturer, b, in 1805 ; d, in
Boston, Mass., 23 Jan., 1872, He began business
in Mill Village, Dedham, Mass., in 1826, his first
work being the construction of a large water-
wheel. He planned and constructed many manu-
facturing establishments previous to 1837, when
his machine-shop was burned. He then moved to
South Boston and entered upon a much more ex-
tensive business, building machinery for boring
and finishing cannon, constructing the first iron
vessel ever lauilt in New England, and the first
large marine engine, tlie first gravel excavator, and
many other great enterprises. He suffered from a
paralvtic affection for more than twenty years.
CONGAR, Samuel Hayes, antiquarian, b. in Newark, N, J., 10 Dec, 1796 ; d. there 29 July, 1872.
