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Horace Mann Conaway

1860–1922

A Methodist minister and scholar, he wrote a detailed study of the French Revolution after advanced work in European history at Columbia University. His life joined academic research, preaching, and church service in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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The first French Republic : A study of the origin and the contents of the declaration of the rights of man, of the constitution, and of the adoption of the republican form of government in 1792

The first French Republic : A study of the origin and the contents of the declaration of the rights of man, of the constitution, and of the adoption of the republican form of government in 1792

by Horace Mann Conaway

About the author

Born in Ohio in 1860, Horace Mann Conaway became a minister as well as a serious student of history. Contemporary and library records connect him with Columbia University, where he pursued graduate study in European history and later published The First French Republic in 1902.

That book shows the side of Conaway most likely to interest modern listeners: he approached the French Revolution with the care of a researcher, focusing on the Declaration of the Rights of Man, constitutional change, and the rise of republican government. At the same time, memorial records describe him as the Rev. Horace M. Conaway, D.D., suggesting a career that balanced scholarship with long years in the Methodist ministry.

He died in Fredonia, New York, in 1922. Though not widely remembered today, his surviving work preserves the voice of an author who brought together historical inquiry, moral seriousness, and a minister's habit of explaining big ideas clearly.