OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - BIO: CONRAD, William (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company 1887, page 423

        WILLIAM CONRAD, farmer, sections 9 and 15, owns 175 acres of land.
He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, December 12, 1836, and when he was six
months old his parents removed to Preble Township, settling on section 15,
where the father, George Conrad, commenced to make a home in the woods,
having entered his land from the Government. He built his cabin on hewed
logs, which the family occupied for twenty-five years. He then built a
frame house, where he lived until his death, which occurred March 4, 1873.
He was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1806, where he was reared and married.
The mother, Fredricka (Kunager) Conrad, was also born in Saxony in 1814,
and is living on the old homestead with the youngest son. She has had
fourteen children - William, Caroline, Frederick, Louisa, Charles, George,
Minnie, Rosalie, Christian and Henry. Four died unnamed. Eight are living.
The father was a butcher by trade and followed it in Germany, but never in
America. William was reared, educated and married in Preble Township, March
16, 1862, he married Miss Minnie Bley, who was born in Obargrunstad,
Weimar, Saxony, Germany, October 20, 1841, and came to America when nearly
twelve years of age, her parents, Adam and Rosina (Sieverd) Bley, settling
upon the farm in Preble Township where they now reside. In her father's
family were ten children, nine of whom are living. Charles, the eldest,
died may 10, 1886, at the age of fifty years. Mrs. Conrad is the fourth
child. Mr. Bley learned the carpenter's trade, and followed it both in
America and Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad have had six children, five of
whom are living - Frederick, born February 8, 1863; Charles, born October
2, 1864, died February 15, 1879 (his death was caused by falling from a
barn and breaking his neck); William D., born April 30, 1866; Louis, born
December 10, 1867; Augustus, born May 13, 1869; Ernest born September 18,
1870. Elizabeth, an adopted child, was born October 8, 1869. Mrs. Conrad's
grandparents were born in Germany, and also died there. Mr. Conrad's
grandfather Conrad kept a hotel in Germany. Both grandparents died in
Germany.


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