GEORGE MICHAEL & REGINA CONRADT
THE STORY AS I KNOW IT
George Michael Conradt was born in 1754 in Germany. There is an IGI listing at the LDS library that he was born Sept 30, 1754 of the Evangelish, Frudental, Neckarkreis in Wuerttemberg. I'll order the film which is available. The right area and the right time. Needs documentation. There is a family document that shows he married Regina and they lived Saxony Wurttemberg, Germany. The family tradition is that they feared Napoleon's army would swept through and take all their sons, so they immigrated to the United States about 1810. They settled in Fredericktown, in Frederick County, Maryland.
I have a handwritten genealogy of the Conradt family in America. The only clue to the author is the statement that the oldest son of George Michael and Regina was "my great grand-father". The Conradt Genealogy states that the couple came from Wurttemberg-Saxony with five children. He built a carpet-weaving factory there. At the time the genealogy was written the gray stone building was still standing. Wurttemberg and Saxony are not connected. The newspaper noted below states that he came from Wurttemberg.
I have a news article cut from an unidentified newspaper.
The byline is New York Sun. There is no date. The headline
is "FIRST CARPETS MADE IN STATE". Therefore, I believe it
to be from a Baltimore paper. The article starts out with
" Carpet weaving in the United States harks back to a
certain George Conradt,
of Wurttemberg who early in the nineteenth century came to
America and settled in Frederick county, Maryland. Made at
first by a handloom on a drum studded with pegs, looking
not unlike an overgrown old-fashioned music box, his
ingrain carpets later became a mill product. To him goes
the credit for establishing the first ingrain carpet mill
in what was to become the United States of America." This
is quoted directly from A Century of Carpet and Rug
Making in America 1825 – 1925 published by the
Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Company of New York.
There were a number of articles about Geroge M. Conradt in
the Maryland Herald:
This implies that he was an important manufacturer in the
textile industry of Maryland.
March
14, 1806 about Blue and black Dying
Jan
22, 1812 about printing and printers
Jan
26, 1813 about fulling, dying and dressing
and one re Jacob
Conradt about a woolen cloth factory, carding and
spinning.
The known children of George Michael Conradt and Regina
were:
1. Christian Gottlieb Conradt
born 1796 wed Emily Mills Hughes
of Hagerstown, Md.
2. Ernest Theophilus Fredrick Conradt wed Eunice
Morgan daughter of Peter and Eunice Morgan
of Hartford CT.
3. Jacob Conradt - He was a concert pianist and
was credited with bringing the first piano to this
country. His wife's name is unknown.
4. George Michael Conradt - his wife's name was
not listed on the family genealogy, but The Fredrick
County Court Marriage records state that George
Michael Conradt Jr. wed Margaret Fessler. He was a
music professor in Baltimore
5. Christina - "known for her violent temper" she
never married.
I have two small portraits of George Michael Conradt and Christina Conradt. The Swiss artist David Bowdin of Geneva Switzerland did them. On the back is a note stating that they were painted February 10, 1813 in Funkstown Washington County state of Maryland.
George Michael Conradt
Sr. died March 15, 1836. It is not known
where he is buried.
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