William Alexander Conn

William Alexander Conn (1814 – January 4, 1903 ) was an American businessman, landowner and politician, serving as a member of the California State Assembly and as a Californian State Senator.

Early life Conn was born in the West Indies in 1814, the son of a businessman and landowner. His family emigrated to the United States four years later, settling first in Baltimore, followed by a series of moves that culminated in Conn's father buying a farm near Chester, Illinois. Two years after the death of his father in 1826, Conn and his family moved to Jacksonville, Illinois.