Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-05-09
CONkl STILES.

As near rs | could find out. nobody ever
knew how Conky Stiles came to know as
much Of the Bible As he did Thirty years
ago people as n class were much better &C
ouainted with the Bible than folk are now
adays, and there wasn't another one of EN-
In the whole Connecticut valley from the
Canada line to the sound that could stand
up 'ongside OF Conky Stiles and quote
Scripture Well. he knew the whole thing
by heart, from Genesis, chapter i, to the
amen at the end of the Revelation Of St
John the Divine. That's the whole business
In nutshell!
His name wasn't Conky. We called him
Couky for short. His real name was Silas
Stiles, but one time at Sunday school con.
yention Mr. Hubbell, the minister, spoke OF
him as "veritable concordance of the Holy
Scriptures" and so we boys undertook to
call him Concordance, but bimeby that
name got whitfield down to Conky, and
Conky stuck to him all the rest of his life.
Not IL bad name for him, neither, as names
go Heap more dignIled than 81!
Ny father always insisted that Conky got
his start in the Scriptures in this way:
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