SAMUEL CONRAD

CONRAD

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:44:48

SAMUEL CONRAD was born in Ohio, near the Pennsylvania line, about 1835, and was reared in Holmes county, Ohio. He is a son of John Conrad, a native of Pennsylvania, and Anna (Falulk) Conrad, the daughter of German parents. The former lived in Ohio until his death and the latter subsequently came to Iowa and passed the remainder of her days in Madison county.

His father being a farmer, Samuel was reared to farm work and received only a limited education in the common schools. He was sixteen when he came to Iowa. After spending some time in Adair county, he came to Adams county where he has since made his home. When the war fo the Rebellion came on Mr. Conrad went to the front and did his part to help preserve the Union. He enlisted in 1862, in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, one of the Iowa regiments that made a brilliant and honorable war record. During his three years’ service he participated in the battles of Champion Hill and Black River Bridge; was at Galveston, Texas, for a time and at Fort Esperando, Spanish Fort, and other places. He had some narrow escapes. At Black River Bridge a bullet went through his clothing but he was unharmed.

At the close of the war Mr. Conrad returned to Iowa. He is now located on a good farm of 160 acres in Carl township, Adams county, where he is surrounded by all the comforts of life. Mr. Conrad was married, in Warren county, Iowa, in 1867, to Miss Eliza Ann Poison, a native of Cedar county, Missouri. Her father, John W. Poison, a well-known and highly respected citizen of Carl township, this county, was born in Garrard county, Kentucky, in 1820. son of Thomas Poison, a native of Yirginia, and Zillah (King) Poison. He was reared in Harrison county, Indiana, and in 1856 came to Iowa and settled in Warren county. He came to Adams county in 1869. In Washington county, Indiana, he married Elizabeth Radcliff, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Brown) Radcliff. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad have four children-—Mary Eldora, Cora Etta, Albert and Willie. Politically Mr. Conrad is an Independent.