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served with the 2d U.S. infantry at Fort Colum- bus, N.Y. harbor, one year; was on the Western frontier, 1858-61, and was promoted 1st lieutenant and detailed as commissary of subsistence in General Lyons's army in Missouri, 1861. He was an aide-de-camp to General Lyons at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Aug. 10, 1861, where he was severely wounded. He was jjromoted captain Nov. 1, 1861, and was chief of the discharge de- partment, army of the Potomac, at Washington, D.C., 1861-64. On Jan. 21, 1864, he resumed ac- tive field service as acting assistant adjutant- general, Arm}' of the Potomac, from April 20 to June 0, 1864. He engaged in the baj:tles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolo- potomy and Bethesda Church. He was made acting judge-advocate and commissary of mus- ters, 2d corps, serving from June 6 to September 3, 1864, and taking part in the siege of Peters- burg and other operations leading to the sur- render of General Lee. For gallantry at the battle of the Wilderness he was brevetted major Aug. 1, 1864, and for the battle of North Anna received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel on the same date. He was engaged on garrison duty, 1865-71 ; at West Point as instructor of infantry tactics, 1871-74; on special dut}', preparing for the centennial exhibition at Philadelphia in 1875, and on the frontier in the south and west, 1877- 91. His promotions in the regular army were major of the 17th infantry, 1879, and lieutenant- colonel of 23d infantry, 1884. He died in Fort Randall, S. Dak., Dec. 4, 1891.

CONRAD, Robert Taylor, author, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., June 10, 1810. He was the son of a book ijublisher; was educated for the legal profession and gained admission to the Philadelphia bar in 1831. He divided his time between law practice and literarj- work, editing and publishing The Daily Commercial Intelligencer, 1831-34. He left journalism in 1834 and was sub- sequently made recorder of the city, and in 1838 judge of the criminal sessions. Upon the disso- lution of that court he assumed the editorship of Graham's Magazine and the assistant editorship of the North American. He was elected mayor of Philadelphia in 1854 and served on the bench of the quarter sessions, 1856-57. In 1832 his plaj' " Conrad of Naples " was produced in Philadel- phia with James E. Murdoch in the title role. In 1835 he wrote the tragedy " The Noble Yeoman " for Augustus A. Addams. The name of the play was afterward changed to " Aylmere,'" and later to " Jack Cade." Edwin Forrest eventually pur- chased the play which he produced with great success. He also wrote a tragedy called the " Heretic, " which was successfully brought out at the Arch street theatre, Pliiladelphia, by Edwin Adams with Mrs. John Drew in the cast.

In 1852 Mr. Conrad issued a volume of his writ- ings under the title of Aylmere ; or the Bondman of Kent, and Other Poems. He died in Philadel- phia, Pa., June 27, 1858.

CONRAD, Timothy Abbott, naturalist, was born near Trenton, N.J., June 21, 1803; son of Solomon White and Elizabeth (Abbott), grand- son of John and Sarah (White), great-grandson of William and Mary (Quee) Conrad ; great^ grand- son of Henry and Katherine (Streypers) Cunreds, and great^ grandson of Thomes Kunders, a mem- ber of the first band of German emigrants who set sail on July 24, 1683, in the ship Concord, from Crefeld, Germany, and settled in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. His father (born July 31, 1779, died Oct. 2, 1831), by trade a printer and book- seller, was an eminent mineralogist and botanist whose home was a popular meeting place for the scientists of Philadelphia, and the first natural history salon opened in that city. He collected a valuable herbarium which he presented to the Philadelphia academy of natural sciences, and in 1829 was elected professor of botany in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. The son, Timothy Abbott, was born at the home of his maternal grandparents and was educated in Philadelphia at select schools under the superintendence of Friends. His knowledge of the higher branches was acquired by private study. He learned the trade of a printer in the establishment of his father, after whose death in 1831 he continued the business for a time. In 1831 he was elected a member of the Philadelphia academy of natural sciences, and some years later of the American philosophical society. His first volume, pub- lished in 1831, is entitled " American Marine Concholog}-, or Descriptions and Colored Figures of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast." The seven- teen plates contained therein were drawn by the author and colored by hand by his sister. In 1837 he was appointed geologist of the state of New- York, and after resigning the position he re- mained as paleontologist of the survey until 1842. He prepared official reports on the fossils collected bj' the United States exploring expedition under Wilkes ; by Lieutenant Lynch's expedition to the Dead sea ; by the Mexican boundary survey ; and some of the surveys for a railroad route to the Pacific. He contributed many papers on the ter- tiary and cretaceous geology and paleontology of the eastern United States to the American Journal of Science ; the Bulletin of the National Institution; the American Journal of Cpnchology ; Kerr's Geolog- ical Report on North America, and other publica- tions. A complete list of his papers contain? one hundred and twelve titles. His non -scien- tific writings consist chiefly of verses. He was the principal American worker in the field of tertiary geology for many years. His published