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M.D. in 1864. He joined the Union army as as- sistant surgeon, was assigned to the army of the Cumberland and stationed at Nashville, Tenn. In 1866 he was ordered to Lake City, Fla., and resigned from the army on being appointed state treasurer by Governor Reed in 1868. He was a member of the State constitutional convention, 1868, a delegate to the Republican national con- vention at Chicago, and a member of the national committee. At the close of Governor Reed's administration he was elected to the state legis- lature and was made speaker of the house. He was elected by the legislature of Florida U.S. senator and served 1873-79. In 1880 he was the unsuccessful candidate for governor of the state and resumed his medical practice, afterward removing to Montana where he was an invalid in 1899.

CONOVER, Thomas H., naval officer, was born in New Jersey in 1794. He entered the U.S. navy as midshipman on board the Essex, Capt. David Porter, Jan. 1, 1812. He then served with McDonough on Lake Champlain. He was pro- moted heu'tenant. Mar<-h o, 1817, and assigned to the Chierrwre of the Mediterranean squadron; was promoted commander, Feb. 28, 1838, his first vessel being the Jo1in Adams ; and was commis- sioned captain, Oct. 2, 1848, having the Constitu- tion as his flagship, 1857-58, while in command of the African coast squadron. He was one of the first officers to be promoted to the new rank of commodore on its creation. July 16, 1862. and he was thereupon placed on the retired list after fifty-three j'ears' service. He died in South Amboy, N.J., Sept. 25, 1864.

CONRAD, Charles Magill, cabinet officer, was born in Winchester, Va., about 1804. He was taken by his father to Mississippi and thence to New Orleans, La., where he acquired a good education and was admitted to the bar in 1828. After several years* service in both branches of the state legislature, he was chosen by that body as U.S. senator to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Mouton, and served from April 14, 1842, to March 4, 1843. He was a member of the state constitutional con- vention, 1844, and was a representative in the 31st congress, 1849-51. In August, 1850, he was appointed secretary of war in President Fill- more's cabinet as successor to Edward Bates and served until March 7, 1853, when he was suc- ceeded by Jefferson Davis. He was a member of the Confederate provisional congress of 1861, was a representative from Louisiana in the 1st and 2d Confederate congresses and a brigadier-gen- eral in the Confederate army. He died in New Orleans. La.. Feb. 11, 1878.

CONRAD, Frederick William, clergyman, was born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill county, Pa.,

Jan. 3, 1816. He was a student at Mt. Airy col- lege, Germantown, Pa., 1828-31; was collector of tolls on the Union canal and railroad, 1834-^1 ; studied at the Theological seminary, Gettysburg, Pa., 1837-39, and was pastor of St. Peter's Lu- theran church. Pine Grove, Pa., 1839—41, where he had organized a Sunday school in 1836. He was married in 1841 to Rebecca, daughter of Peter Filbert of Pine Grove. He was pastor of Lu- theran churches at Waynesboro, Pa., and vicin- ity, 1841—14; of St. John's church, Hagerstown, Md., 1844-.50; professor of modern languages in Wittenberg coUege, Springfield, Ohio, and of homiletics and church history in the theological department of that institution, 1850-55; pastor of the college church and associate editor of the Evangelical Lutheran, 1850-55; pastor of the First Lutheran church, Dayton, Ohio, 1855-62 ; of Old Trinity church, Lancaster, Pa., 1862-64; of the Lutheran church, Chambersburg, 1864-66; and of Messiah church, Philadelphia, 1866-72. He was joint editor of the Lxitheran Observer, 1862-66, and editor-in-chief, 1866-98. He delivered an address on " The Hand of God in the War," at Chambers- burg, Pa., in 1864, during Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Wittenberg college, that of LL.D. hj Roanoke college, Ya. He published Baptism ; the Call to the Ministry ; Worship and Its Forms; and Catechism Explained and Amplified. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 10, 1898.

CONRAD, Joseph, soldier, was born in Wied- Selters, Germany, Maj' 17, 1830. He was edu- cated as a soldier, graduating at Darmstadt, Hesse, in 1848. Shortly afterward he immigrated to the United States and settled in Missouri. At the outbreak of the civil war he volunteered for three months and was made a captain in the 3d Missouri infantry. He gained promotion to major, and took part in the battles of Carthage and Pea Ridge, and in the siege of Corinth. He re-enlisted as lieutenant-colonel of the 15th Mis- souri infantry May 26, 1862, and .soon afterward was made colonel. He participated with the army of the Cvimberland in the battles of Perry- ville, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. At the siege of Atlanta he commanded a brigade and won the brevet of brigadier-general. After the war he commanded a sub-district of Texas and was mustered out of the volimteer service Feb. 3, 1866. He joined the regular army July 28, 1866, and was commissioned a captain in the 29th. U.S. infantrj-. On April 25, 1869, he was trans- ferred to the 11th U.S. infantry and was retired Oct. 23, 1882. with the rank of colonel. He died in Washington, D.C., July 16, 1897.

CONRAD, Joseph Speed, soldier, was born in Ithaca, N.Y.. Aug. 23, 1833. He was grad- uated at the U.S. military academy in 1857;