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CONRAD FIX, contractor, Wilkinsburg, is a native of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, born in 1840. When he was four years old his parents, Conrad and Mary (Brill) Fix, immigrated to America, and lived in Penn and Collins townships till the death of the father, which took place in 1880, at the age of seventy-six. There were three children, of whom Conrad is the eldest. Kate (Mrs. Joseph Blank), resides in Baltimore, Md., and Philip at Bloomfield, this county. The mother, now aged eighty-four, resides with the latter. When eleven years old our subject began driving on the canal. When seventeen commenced molding brick, an occupation he followed till 1870, when he began contracting for the making of cisterns, sewers and general brickwork. April 17, 1861, he left Pittsburgh with the first troops responding to President Lincoln’s call, and afterward joined Knap’s battery, becoming, in 1861, a member of the 5th P. H. A. At the close of the war he came to Wilkinsburg, and in 1870 built his present home. Aug. 22, 1866, Mr. Fix was married to Joannah Niblock, native of Butler county, Pa., daughter of Samuel and Nancy Niblock, natives of Ireland and Philadelphia, respectively. Three children bless this union: Annie M., Rebecca N. and Ira N. The family attend the Reformed Church; in politics Mr. Fix is a republican.