HENRY WARREN CONANT

HENRY WARREN CONANT

1871 – 1947

REHOBOTH HEIGHTS DEVELOPMENT 1923

Henry Conant, of Rehoboth Beach , a man of vision, came to Rehoboth Beach to extend his fishing business, from Chincogteague Virginia. Conantt was born 1871 to William N. Conant and

Sarah Melvin who had a sash and curtain manufacturing business in upper New Jersey.

In addition to his Henry Conant fising business he was president of the Chincogteague Bank.

His survey of Rehoboth impressed him with it's possibilities for development and n 1923 after he had

bought the old Thompson tract just south of Rehoboth proper and the Silver Lake, he set out selling

Rehoboth Beach to the rest of Delaware.

The real estate company he formed was the Rehoboth Heights Development Company which has in

1927 built the dilapidated old farm stead into a beautiful spot, including the Rehoboth Country Club,

a nine hole golf course and some 75 attractive beach cottages, most of these on the ocean front and Silver Lake . Sussex county has assessed this section close to one million dollars.

This section was recently annexed into the Town of Rehoboth, a result which Mr. Conant was very happy with and will lead the resort to greater improvements.

Conant had suggested the town establish a governor's summer mansion at the resort to be be used by present and future governors of the State of Delaware.

In the late 1920's Conant became Mayor of Rehoboth, retiring in August 1930 to return to Chincogteague to make his home. He also will retain a sunner cottage at Rehoboth Beach.

Hemry Warren Conant died at Chincoteague Virginia, Tuesday, September 23, 1947, and ws surived by his wife, Sarah Francis Davis Conant, and two sons Henry Warren., Jr., and Newell R. both

of Chincoteague.

Abstract of Wilmington Newspapers, 1923 – 1947, by HARRISON H. November 24, 2017.