Carl Conrads

[2] He was born in Sinzig-on-the-Rhine, the son of Heinrich Joseph Conrads and Johanna Maria Catherina Fleischer.

[3] Carl remained in Munich and received a diploma from the Koeniglich Bayerische Akademie der Bildenden Kunste.

[2] A reference from 1879: Another German artist, Carl Conrads, has been for twelve years connected with the Hartford Granite Company [sic].

"[7] Noteworthy among his granite works are his colossal American Volunteer statue at Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland; his seated figure of Morality on the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts – "said to be the largest solid granite monument in the world;"[8] and his Alexander Hamilton statue in Central Park, New York City.

[9] Conrads is buried in West Hartford, Connecticut; his grave is marked with a simple stone.