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Conrad, Timothy A. |
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June 21, 1803-August 9, 1877 |
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Timothy Abbott Conrad, born June 21, 1803 in Burlington County, New Jersey to a family interested in natural history, was
a naturalist, conchologist, paleontologist, author, and artist of lithographic book plates. Educated at Westtown, Conrad drew
lithographic plates for natural history works that he authored and include "American Marine Conchology, or Descriptions and
Colored Figures of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast" (1831); "Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America" (1832);
and "New Fresh-water Shells of the United States, with Lithographic Illustrations and a Monograph of the Genus Anculotus of
Say" (1832).
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Son of Solomon White Conrad (1779-1831), a publisher and printer and professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania,
Conrad worked as a clerk for his father in the 1820s, and upon the elder's death assumed management of the establishment.
After a few years, he abandoned the printing business to pursue his natural history studies, and in 1837 he was appointed
Geologist of the state of New York. A member of the Academy of the Natural Sciences beginning in 1831 and later the American
Philosophical Society, he contributed approximately twenty-two illustrated articles in the 1830s, some to the Academy's journal,
and helped to found the Association of American Geologists in 1840.
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By 1850, he lived with family in the High Street Ward in Center City. Working as a geologist according to the 1860 census,
he lived in his brother-in-law's household in Trenton (Ward 3). He returned again to Center City Philadelphia (Ward 9) by
1870. He never married, and according to one biography, was often melancholy, especially in his later years. He passed away
in Trenton on August 9, 1877.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1860, 1870 |
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"Conrad, Timothy Abbott," Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008. Encyclopedia.com, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900975.html |
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Groce & Wallace, 144 |
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Philadelphia Inquirer, August 11, 1877 |
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Abbott, "Timothy Abbott Conrad," The Popular Science Monthly (June 1895): 257-263. |
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Trenton State Gazette, August 11 and August 24, 1877 |