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R. A. Conrad, of the milling firm of Conrad, Cartmal & Co., was born in Perry County, Mo., in 1852, and is the son of R. B. and Anna M. E. (Schmalhurst) Conrad, the father a native of Perry County, Mo., and the mother of Prussia. R. B. Conrad was a miller in early life, but later engaged in farming in connection with his milling interest. R. A. Conrad has been a resident of Barton County, Mo., since 1869. He was reared on the farm, and also assisted his father in the mill until the above mentioned date, when he came to Barton County. His father and the family followed the next year and settled in Barton Township, where they bought a raw piece of land, which they improved. R. A. Conrad remained at home one year after he was twenty-one years of age, and then, in 1874, he, with a partner, bought a mill in LeRoy Township, which they operated for five years. Mr. Conrad then engaged in farming again, continuing at this one year, after which he sold out and came to Golden City. In 1882 he purchased an interest in a mill which had been established in Golden City in 1881, by McCune & Boyd, and in 1885 Mr. Cartmal became connected with the same. The mill has a capacity of seventy-five barrels per day, roller process, has all the latest improvements in machinery, and runs night and day half the year. The mill employs seven men, and does principally a local trade in adjoining counties and Kentucky. Mr. Conrad is also interested in the Greenfield Mills at South Greenfield, also a roller process mill of 100 barrels’ capacity. He was married in 1873 to Miss Mary E. Janes, a native of Indiana, and they have an interesting family of four children, Clyde, Anna, Lee and Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad are members of the Congregational Church, and he is a member of the city council of Golden City, and a member of the I. O. O. F.