Conrad, Charles M
soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1804 in Winchester, Va. He served a number of years in the state legislature; was a senator in congress in 1842 and 1843; and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1844. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1849 to 1850, when he became secretary of war under President Fillmore. He served in the southern rebellion as a brigadier-general. He died Feb. 11, 1878, in New Orleans, La.
CONRAD, F., abbot, was born in 1833 in Switzerland. 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.