ceived an honorable discharge shortly before the close of the war. He belongs to the Veteran Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, and the Encampment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Christian church.
Mr. Parsons married, September 22, 1853, Naomi, daughter of John Aubrey, a boss miner, and they have been the parents of the following children: John, died in Johnstown, aged forty, employed for twenty-eight years in Cambria Company's store; he married Ella Byers. Robert Aubrey, foreman for Cambria Steel Company, married Eva Barns, who was drowned in flood. Thomas, deceased. Elizabeth, wife of Frank Hoerle, of Johnstown. Naomi Matilda, wife of Newton B. Swank, of Johnstown. Charles, deceased. Joseph, of Johnstown, married (first), Ella Replogle, (second) Minnie Crawford. Daniel, attorney of Johnstown, married Annette Border. Melissa, died in infancy.
CONRAD BADER, for many years a stone masonry contractor in the city of Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, and who has held with great benefit to the community a number of public officers of trust and responsibility, is a descendant of an old and honored family of Germany, from which he has inherited many excellent qualities.
Frederick Bader, father of Conrad Bader, was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1805. He was a stone mason by trade, and thinking the new world offered better fields for advancement than the old, emigrated to the United States with his family in 1864. He immediately proceeded to Johnstown, where he arrived August 17. He took up his trade of stone masonry in that city, branching out into the contracting business for this kind of work, and was an eminently successful man of business. He was thus occupied until his death, which occurred January 8, 1872. He married Maria Deubel, and had children: 1. Martin, of whom little is known save that he followed the sea and became a captain in the merchant marine. 2. Peter, married Christina Martin, and has one daughter, Catherine, who married Michael Scanlon. 3. Conrad, see forward. 4. Charles, married Mary Kammer, and has children: John, married Minnie Singling; Angusta. 5. John, married Elizabeth Wolf, and had children: George Edward, Theodore, Walter J., Lena, Louisa, Annie, Ida and Clara.
Conrad Bader, third son and child of Frederick and Maria (Deubel ) Bader, was born in Inheiden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, October 21, 1839. The first twenty-five years of his life were spent in Germany, and he received his education in the public schools of his native town. He had learned the trade of stone masonry under the able tuition of his father, and came with the latter and the remainder of the family to America. Immediately upon his arrival in Johnstown he sought and found employment with the Cambria Iron Company. He remained with this corporation but a short time, when he took up the stonemason's trade, and has been busied in that line of industry since that time. His main interests lie in contract work, and he has built the foundations of many of the school buildings of Johnstown, a number of the churches, and that of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station. Among the foundations for school buildings which were laid under his careful supervision was one located at Lincoln and Union streets, which, although exposed to the full force of the flood of May, 1889, remained standing in good condition after the waters had subsided, although the majority of the buildings in that section of the city had succumbed to
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