A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans, Volume 5
By Will Thomas Hale, Dixon Lanier Merritt
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York; 1913

Pages 1447-1448

C. C. Conn. Among the valued citizens of any community are constructive men, men who have genius and the ability to apply it in material development; but when moral stamina and high ideals of what constitutes good citizenship are added to their assets for usefulness in society, they become true factors of development and progress, not only in a material way but along all lines. C. C . Conn, of Union City, Tennessee, is such a gentleman, a prominent contractor and builder who in this capacity has erected such structures there as the Nailing building, the D. J. Caldwell home, the Neblett home and the residences of Herman Deitzel, C. T. Moss, G. B. and W. L. White, G. L. Porter, J. M. Brice, as well as numerous other less important, all mute testimony of the quality of his workmanship and his skill and taste as a builder. For the most part he is his own architect and works from his own plans. He has spent twenty-one years as a carpenter and the last ten years of that time he has also operated as a contractor. He has long been a resident of this vicinity, but first made his home in Union City about three and a half years ago.

Born in Obion county, Tennessee, in 1866, he was reared and educated in his native county and began his chosen occupation as soon as he left school, following it successfully to the present time. He is a son of Jesse Conn and Louise (Waddle) Conn, the former of whom was born in York, Pennsylvania, while the latter was a native of Maury county, Tennessee. Jesse Conn migrated to Tennessee in 1861 and engaged in the milling and lumber business in Obion county, acquiring extensive business interests in this connection. By trade he was a carpenter and it was under his careful direction that his son learned carpentry and became a skilled workman. There were ten children in the elder Conn family, five of whom are living at this time. Of those surviving, two have followed agricultural pursuits and two are carpenters. They all have assumed worthy stations in society and have so ordered their lives as to command the respect of all who know them. Mr. Conn of this review is affiliated fraternally with the Masonic order, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Woodmen of the World.

1870 Census, Obion County, TN
District 7, hw-page 9, stamped page 152
Lines 1-10; Enum-Dwelling #57; Enum-Family #57
CONN, Jesse (46) House Carpenter, $4000/$1000, PA
“, Louise J (34) Keeping house, TN
“, William (13), TN
“, Harvey (11), TN
“, Robert (9), TN
“, Jesse (7), TN
“, Charlie (5), TN
“, Emmett (3), TN
“, unnamed (1/12 born May), TN
WADDLE, A. (19, female) $0/$250, TN

1880 Census, Obion County, TN
District No. 7; ED:107, Page No. 23
Lines 36-45; Enum-Dwelling #198; Enum-Family #211
CONN, Jessie (56) Carpenter, PA-PA-PA
“, Eliza (44) wife, Keeping house, TN-TN-TN
“, Harvey (20) son, works on farm, TN-PA-TN
“, Jessie (16) son, works on farm, TN-PA-TN
“, Charlie (14) son, works on farm, TN-PA-TN
“, Emet (12) son, works on farm, TN-PA-TN
“, Ugene (10) son, works on farm, TN-PA-TN
“, Edna (6) dau, TN-PA-TN
“, Kate (4) dau, TN-PA-TN