 He founded the firm together with William C. Goeben, a colleague of Conning’s at Hornblower & Weeks.The firm embraced the technology of the day, providing election returns to clients by wire from New York during President Woodrow Wilson’s t narrow, re-election victory in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes.In 1920, Conning & Company installed a bond ticker and moved into a newly constructed building on Lewis Street in Hartford.