Leon County FlArchives Biographies.....CONRADI, EDWARD February 20, 1869 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923,  Vol. III pg.159

        CONRADI, Ph. D., EDWARD, president of the State College for Women at 
Tallahassee, has by his service to this institution and to the other 
educational interests of Florida and the South earned a reputation as one of 
the men of broad vision and sound judgment on all matters affecting the 
welfare and progress of schools and education in general.
	Doctor CONRADI was born on a farm at New Bremen, Ohio, February 20, 
1869, largely educated himself through his earnings and efforts, and has 
achieved an eminent success by his individual resourcefulness.  His father, 
CHARLES F. CONRADI, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1817, came to the United 
States in 1847, and spent his active life as a farmer at New Bremen, Ohio, 
where he died in 1891, at the age of seventy-four.  The mother was GERTRUDE 
BRUETSCH, a native of Baden, Germany.
	EDWARD CONRADI was trained to industrious habits on the home farm, but 
beyond the common schools had to rely on himself for his advanced education.  
He attended high school and subsequently entered Indiana University, where he 
graduated A. B. in 1897 and A. M. in 1898.  From 1898 to 1902 he was principal 
of the schools of Carlisle, Indiana.  In 1902 he won a fellowship in Clark 
University, where he pursued his higher studies from 1902 to 1905, and in 1904 
was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree by that university.
	Since then his work and home have been in Florida.  From 1905 to 1909 
he was principal of the Normal and Industrial School at St. Petersburg and in 
1909 entered upon his duties as president of the State College for Women.  
Doctor CONRADI is a member of scientific and educational organizations, 
including the National Educational Association, the Southern Educational 
Association, the Conference for Education in the South, the Southern Society 
for Philosophy and Psychology and the Society for the Scientific Study of 
Education.  He has contributed a number of articles to magazines, chiefly on 
pedagogical and psychological subjects.
	Doctor CONRADI has taken a place with the public spirited men in favor 
of every progress for general advancement in the City of Tallahassee.  For two 
years he was chairman of the Boosters Club, now the Chamber of Commerce.  He 
served as chairman of the Leon County Four Minute Speakers during the World 
war, is a democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religious affiliation, though 
he now teaches the Bible Class of the Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee.  He 
is much interested in the Tallahassee Boy Scout Council, and his favorite 
diversions are gardening and tennis.
	August 24, 1898, at New Bremen, Ohio, he married AUGUSTA D. E. 
GROTHAUS, of New Bremen, daughter of WILLIAM and ELIZABETH (LANFERSIECK) 
GROTHAUS, her father a native of Germany and her mother of Ohio.  Her father 
was a boy when brought to the United States, and he was for many years in the 
cigar and tobacco business at New Bremen.  Mrs. CONRADI takes an active part 
in the social affairs of Tallahassee, and for several years was secretary of 
the Women’s Club in that city.  They have two daughters:  ELIZABETH LILLIAN, 
who graduated A. B. from the State College for Women in 1921, and from the 
School of Expression at Boston in 1922; and LOUISA MAY RUTH, who is still 
pursuing her studies in the State College.
	

	

	







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