elected to the U. S. senate as a whig in the place of Alexander Mouton, who had resigned, and served from 14 April, 1842, till 3 March, 1843. In 1844 he was a member of the state constitutional convention. He was elected to congress in 1848, and served till August, 1850, when he was appointed secretary of war by President Fillmore, serving from 13 Aug., 1850, till 7 March, 1853. He was one of the leaders of the secession movement in Louisiana in December, 1860, a deputy from Louisiana in the Montgomery provisional congress of 1861, a member of the 1st and 2d Confederate congresses in 1862-'4, and also served as a brigadier-general in the Confederate army.
CONRAD, Frowin, b. in Auro, Switzerland, 2
Nov., 1833. He entered the order of St. Benedict,
and was ordained in 1856. Having received directions
to found a monastery of his order in the
United States in 1873, he embarked for this country
and founded the Benedictine monastery of New
Engleberg, at Conception, Mo., which was erected
into an abbey in 1881. In 1885 Father Conrad
was chosen as its first abbot.
CONRAD, Joseph, soldier, b. in Wied-Selters,
Germany, 17 May, 1830. He was graduated at the
military academy of Hesse Darmstadt in 1848, and
came to this country, settling in Missouri. At the
beginning of the civil war he enlisted in the
National service, and was made captain of the 3d
Missouri infantry. He became major in September,
and was engaged in the action of Carthage,
the battle of Pea Ridge, and the siege of Corinth.
After being mustered out, he re-entered the army
as lieutenant-colonel of the 15th Missouri infantry,
in May, 1862, became colonel in November, and
was engaged in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga,
and Missionary Ridge. During the Atlanta
campaign he commanded a brigade in the Army of
the Cumberland, and was brevetted brigadier-general
for his services. He commanded the sub-district
of Victoria in Texas until February, 1866,
when he was mustered out of the volunteer service.
In July, 1866, he entered the regular army, and
was commissioned captain in the 29th infantry,
transferred to the 11th infantry in April, 1869,
and served with his regiment until October, 1882,
when he was retired with the rank of colonel.
CONRAD, Joseph Speed, soldier, b. in Ithaca,
N. Y., 23 Aug., 1833; d. in Fort Randall, 4 Dec.,
1891. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy
in 1857, and assigned to Fort Columbus. He
was sent to the western frontier in 1858, and during
the three years succeeding served in Minnesota
and Nebraska. When the civil war began
he was a first lieutenant, and was detailed as
commissary of subsistence to Gen. Lyon in the
Missouri campaign in the summer of 1861. He
was wounded at the battle of Wilson's Creek, 10
Aug., and was on sick-leave until October. He
was promoted captain, 1 Nov., 1861, and placed at
the head of the discharge department in Washington
from that time until 21 Jan., 1864. Early in
the summer of that year he joined the regular
brigade of the Army of the Potomac, and was
engaged in the campaigns that followed, including
the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
Petersburg, and Reams's Station. During this period
he served at different times as judge-advocate,
provost-marshal, and commissary of musters. He
received three brevets, as major, lieutenant-colonel,
and colonel of volunteers. From 1865 till 1871 he
was occupied with garrison duty, after which he
served as instructor of infantry tactics at the U. S.
military academy, and then on special duty in
Washington in connection with the Centennial ex-
hibition at Philadelphia. In 1877 he was assigned
to duty on the frontier. He was promoted to major
of the 17th infantry on 27 April, 1879, and to
lieutenant-colonel of the 22d infantry on 27 June, 1884.
In 1886 he was in command of Fort Lyon, Colorado.
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CONRAD, Robert Taylor, lawyer, b. in Philadelphia, 10 June, 1810; d. there, 27 June, 1858. He was the son of a publisher of Philadelphia, was educated for the bar, and attained a high reputation as a political speaker, and as an editor and poet. Before he was twenty-one years old he wrote a tragedy, “Conradin,” and in 1832 published the “Daily Commercial Intelligencer,” which was merged into the “Philadelphia Gazette.” Abandoning this occupation from failing health in 1834, he returned to the law, became recorder, and in 1838 judge of the criminal sessions for the city and county of Philadelphia. When the latter court was dissolved, he resumed the pen, edited “Graham's Magazine,” and became associate editor of the “North American.” On the consolidation of the districts with the city in 1854, he was elected mayor by the Whig and American parties. In 1856 he was appointed to the bench of the quarter sessions, serving in that capacity till 1857. In literature he is best known by the tragedy of “Aylmere,” purchased by Edwin Forrest, in which that actor played the part of Jack Cade. In 1852 Judge Conrad published a volume entitled “Aylmere, or the Bondman of Kent, and other Poems,” the principal of which latter are “The Sons of the Wilderness,” a meditative poem on the wrongs and misfortunes of the North American Indians, and a series of sonnets on the Lord's Prayer. Another tragedy that he wrote, “The Heretic,” was never acted, nor published.
CONRAD, Timothy Abbott, naturalist, b. in
New Jersey, 21 June, 1803; d. in Trenton, N. J.,
9 Aug., 1877. He was from early life an investigator
of American paleontology and natural
history, devoting himself to the study of the shells of
the tertiary and cretaceous formations, and to
existing species of mollusks. In 1831 he began the
issue of a work on “American Marine Conchology,”
and the year following published the first
number of his “Fossil Shells of the Tertiary
Formation,” which was never completed. A “Monography
of the Family Unionidæ” was issued
between 1835 and 1847. The lithographed plates in
his publications were in part his own work. He
contributed many articles to the “American Journal
of Science” and the “Journal of the
Philadelphia Academy of Science.” As one of the
New York state geologists he prepared the
geological report for 1837. He was paleontologist of
the New York geological survey from 1838 till
1841, and wrote the annual reports in that department.
He also made the reports of paleontological
discoveries in the Pacific railroad survey and
