Biography, J. L. Floyd & Co., 1911, "Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County Pennsylvania", (Chicago)

........Taking up the early records of the Conrads, we find that John Conrad, the great-grandfather of George M. Conrad owned a farm of some four hundred acres east of Sunbury. This John Conrad, born Nov. 18, 1777, died June 11, 1839. He married Julian Cooper, who was born June 1, 1778, and lived and died in Augusta township, passing away Dec. 22, 1841, aged sixty-three years, six months, twenty one days. They had children as follow: Susanna, Married Samuel Herb; Ann Maria married Decaton Herb and had Julia, Maria, Daniel, Decaton (married Mrs. Maria Dietrich) and Samuel; William married Susan Huey and (second) a Miss Bartholomew, and had a son George; Eli married Polly Geringer; George married Hester Reeser; Danie married a Miss Wolfe; Sarah married Samuel Garinger; Julia Ann married Henry Gass; Catharine (Kate) married a Mr. Cooper; Elidia married a Mr. Schrader; Molly married William Miller...............

GEORGE M. CONRAD, of Sunbury, a citizen of that borough in touch with its best interests, commercial, official, social, and one whose intelligent activities have made him a power in all those circles, bears a name which has been identified with this region for several generations. Jacob and Adam Conrad are shown by the records to have been taxables in Augusta township, Northumberland county, in 1774. In the maternal line Mr. Conrad is a member of another prominent family, the Fasold family, the branch to which his mother belongs having been settled in Northumberland county for about a century...........

..........George Conrad, son of John, born Aug. 26, 1808 died May 17, 1877. He owned a large farm, comprising some two hundred and fifty acres, upon which what is now the eastern portion of Sunbury is built. He married Hester Reeser, born July 26, 1811 died Nov. 11, 1886, and they became the parents of the following children: Catharine married Albert Beckley and had four children, Florine (Married Charles Zerbe), Clara (Married John Evert), Alice (died young) and Hattie; William died young; Harriet married Philip Eckman and had a daughter Ester; Henry H. married Sophia Fasold; Gideon was the next in the family, Silas married Ellen Clark; Amandus Aaron, the youngest, married Mary Wise.............
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