CONRAD, CHARLES

CONRAD, RUCKERMAN

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:54

MADISON TOWNSHIP
(P. O. FORT MADISON)

CONRAD, CHARLES, meat-market; was born in Germany Dec. 29, 1819 ; he emigrated to America in 1840; he was on the river about seven years ; he came to Iowa and settled at Fort Madison in 1847, and engaged in his present business, and has continued it since then—thirty-two years ; he has the longest-established meat-market in Lee Co. He married Miss Barbara E. Ruckerman, from Bavaria, Germany, in August, 1849 ; they have six children —George, Charles, Harry, Albert, John and Jeannette.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879