Early Life and Times of Boone County, Indiana, published May 1877, republished 1974

MARTIN CONRAD. Mr. Conrad was born in North Carolina, and came with his
parents when a youth to Eagle Creek, settling near the Hamilton County line. near where
Benton's Mill was built. Mr. C. learned the shoemaker's trade and worked at it many
years, most of the time at Indianapolis, where he made his start in the world from a poor
boy to rise to one of the solid men of the county. He early in life joined the M.E. Church,
and ever since has been a faithful member, making no great show or parade in life, that
speaks volumes of him. He has been in the grocery business in Zionsville the past ten or
fifteen years, where he enjoys the confidence and patronage of the people he has lived so
long amongst. But few men were better than Mr. Conrad. You always know where to
find him on the right side for morality and humanity. In politics he is a stanch
Republican and a lover of his country. Long may he live to enjoy the hard earnings of his
early life.

CONRAD