Sylvester Jones Conklin (5 May 1829 – 20 May 1914)[1] was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
First, to Mattie Greenslate in 1884, and second, to Anna Duff in 1895.
During the American Civil War, Conkin served with the 48th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
From 1901 to 1903, he was Adjutant General of South Dakota.
Conklin went to the old soldiers home at Hot Springs, South Dakota and appeared to have died in a hospital in Pierre, South Dakota after scolding himself in a bath.