Suggested Edit: "Our Iowa" magazine June/july 2018 issue page 68 .
He served in the War of 1812 and moved to Iowa in 1855 to a farm in Manchester, where he spent the rest of his long life.
Christian seldom goes to bed until 2 0r 3 in the morning and rises around 8 am.
Contributor: Collene Family Finder
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He was born in either Northumberland or Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Christian Coonrod, perhaps the oldest man between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, has just died at Manchester, Iowa. He was 116 years of age, and had been a soldier of the war of 1812.
He was born in Cumberland, Pa., Sept. 20, 1780, seven years before the convention sat to frame the constitution of the United States. His widow is over 80 years of age.
Philipsburg Mail (MT), 2 April 1896
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Cascade Pioneer, Published in Cascade, Iowa on Friday, August 9th, 1895
Christian Conrad, aged 115 years was in town last Saturday selling his picture. The old gentleman is probably the oldest man in Iowa, was born Sept. 22, 1780, and is still hale and quite hearty. He walked from his home (near Lindsy Bridge) to Dundee a distance of 7 miles, between 1 o’clock and 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. Artist G. W. Roe took two excellent negatives of the old man while he was here. The old man is a native of Augusta Township, Northumberland County, Penn., and a veteran of the Black Hawk War. He has great grandchildren, we are told whose age incapacitates them from labor, and yet he worked quite a garden last summer.
-Strawberry Point Mail.
Submitted byCheryl Locher Moonen (47601076)
He served in the War of 1812 and moved to Iowa in 1855 to a farm in Manchester, where he spent the rest of his long life.
Christian seldom goes to bed until 2 0r 3 in the morning and rises around 8 am.
Contributor: Collene Family Finder
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He was born in either Northumberland or Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Christian Coonrod, perhaps the oldest man between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, has just died at Manchester, Iowa. He was 116 years of age, and had been a soldier of the war of 1812.
He was born in Cumberland, Pa., Sept. 20, 1780, seven years before the convention sat to frame the constitution of the United States. His widow is over 80 years of age.
Philipsburg Mail (MT), 2 April 1896
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Cascade Pioneer, Published in Cascade, Iowa on Friday, August 9th, 1895
Christian Conrad, aged 115 years was in town last Saturday selling his picture. The old gentleman is probably the oldest man in Iowa, was born Sept. 22, 1780, and is still hale and quite hearty. He walked from his home (near Lindsy Bridge) to Dundee a distance of 7 miles, between 1 o’clock and 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. Artist G. W. Roe took two excellent negatives of the old man while he was here. The old man is a native of Augusta Township, Northumberland County, Penn., and a veteran of the Black Hawk War. He has great grandchildren, we are told whose age incapacitates them from labor, and yet he worked quite a garden last summer.
-Strawberry Point Mail.
Submitted byCheryl Locher Moonen (47601076)
Suggested Edit: "Our Iowa" magazine June/july 2018 issue page 68 .
He served in the War of 1812 and moved to Iowa in 1855 to a farm in Manchester, where he spent the rest of his long life.
Christian seldom goes to bed until 2 0r 3 in the morning and rises around 8 am.
Contributor: Collene Family Finder
-------------------------------------------
He was born in either Northumberland or Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Christian Coonrod, perhaps the oldest man between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, has just died at Manchester, Iowa. He was 116 years of age, and had been a soldier of the war of 1812.
He was born in Cumberland, Pa., Sept. 20, 1780, seven years before the convention sat to frame the constitution of the United States. His widow is over 80 years of age.
Philipsburg Mail (MT), 2 April 1896
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Cascade Pioneer, Published in Cascade, Iowa on Friday, August 9th, 1895
Christian Conrad, aged 115 years was in town last Saturday selling his picture. The old gentleman is probably the oldest man in Iowa, was born Sept. 22, 1780, and is still hale and quite hearty. He walked from his home (near Lindsy Bridge) to Dundee a distance of 7 miles, between 1 o’clock and 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. Artist G. W. Roe took two excellent negatives of the old man while he was here. The old man is a native of Augusta Township, Northumberland County, Penn., and a veteran of the Black Hawk War. He has great grandchildren, we are told whose age incapacitates them from labor, and yet he worked quite a garden last summer.
-Strawberry Point Mail.
Submitted byCheryl Locher Moonen (47601076)
He served in the War of 1812 and moved to Iowa in 1855 to a farm in Manchester, where he spent the rest of his long life.
Christian seldom goes to bed until 2 0r 3 in the morning and rises around 8 am.
Contributor: Collene Family Finder
-------------------------------------------
He was born in either Northumberland or Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Christian Coonrod, perhaps the oldest man between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, has just died at Manchester, Iowa. He was 116 years of age, and had been a soldier of the war of 1812.
He was born in Cumberland, Pa., Sept. 20, 1780, seven years before the convention sat to frame the constitution of the United States. His widow is over 80 years of age.
Philipsburg Mail (MT), 2 April 1896
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Cascade Pioneer, Published in Cascade, Iowa on Friday, August 9th, 1895
Christian Conrad, aged 115 years was in town last Saturday selling his picture. The old gentleman is probably the oldest man in Iowa, was born Sept. 22, 1780, and is still hale and quite hearty. He walked from his home (near Lindsy Bridge) to Dundee a distance of 7 miles, between 1 o’clock and 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. Artist G. W. Roe took two excellent negatives of the old man while he was here. The old man is a native of Augusta Township, Northumberland County, Penn., and a veteran of the Black Hawk War. He has great grandchildren, we are told whose age incapacitates them from labor, and yet he worked quite a garden last summer.
-Strawberry Point Mail.
Submitted byCheryl Locher Moonen (47601076)
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