Samuel Stillman Conant (December 11, 1831—after January 1885) was an American journalist, author, and literary editor.
He was educated at Madison University in Hamilton, New York, before spending several years studying across Europe, in cities including Berlin, Heidelberg, and Munich.
He worked as managing editor of The New York Times from 1862 to 1869, resigning after Henry Jarvis Raymond died.
[1][2][3] In 1875 he published a translation from Russian to English of Circassian Boy by Mikhail Lermontov.
[5] He then became managing editor at Harper's Weekly, a post he held until he disappeared in January 1885.