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GEORGE M. CONRAD, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Le Roy; the subject of this sketch was born in Henry Co., Ind., July 27, 1840; he was the son of Adam and Hannah (Maples) Conrad; his father was born in Hardy Co., Va., Nov. 30, 1796; he located in Indiana in 1839, and at Twin Grove, McLean Co., Ill., in 1864, where he lived until his decease, which occurred Nov. 30, 1873, aged 77 years; he lies buried in the beautiful cemetery at Twin Grove; Mrs. Conrad was born in Lewis Co., Ky., Oct. 9, 1803; she now lives with the subject of this sketch, who has erected a residence for her especial benefit upon his place near his own, and although now in the 76th year of her age, she is in possession of all her faculties and daily attends to her own household duties, which afford to her much happiness; G. M. Conrad came West with his parents and was engaged in partnership with his father until 1866, when he entered the law office of Judge Tipton, at Bloomington, where he read law one year, and, in 1867, he engaged in the grocery trade at Bloomington, under the firm name of Hardisty & Conrad, which firm was dissolved in 1868; in 1869, he removed upon his present place, where he has 121 acres of land under cultivation, upon which he has good farm buildings. He was united in marriage with Matilda Sexton, Feb. 15, 1869; she was born in Fond du Lac Co., Wis., June 24, 1848; they were the parents of two children, of which one died in infancy; the living, Lola E., was born April 15, 1878.