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Robert Taylor Conrad, the son of John and Eliza Conrad, was born on June 10, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. His father was a prosperous publisher who printed Charles Brockden Brown’s Literary Magazine.
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Gentlemen, Of the Zelosophic Society, of the University of Pennsylvania: Every season of life has its dreams, its waste of time and mind in unrealities, and youth, perhaps, more than any: still it may be doubted whether the earlier stages of our journey are not more practical and laborious than those of after life. Youth has every motive to exertion, and these appeal to minds and frames which move, as the spring moves near its fountain, with a sparkling alacrity, unknown to the broad river of advanced life. They who treat it as a season spanned only by rainbow hopes, and dreamy imaginings, sacrifice to a fiction, their own memory of its care and labours. It is the season of practical exertion, and as such, I will endeavour to consider its duties, with a simple and frank fidelity. However much we may have done in our academic hours, who reverts to them without a pang for that which was left undone? In this, as in all things, the greatest prodigality accompanies the greatest wealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Robert Taylor Conrad, the son of John and Eliza Conrad, was born on June 10, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. His father was a prosperous publisher who printed Charles Brockden Brown’s Literary Magazine.
Robert was trained for a legal career and was admitted to the bar in 1831.
Conrad was more interested in journalism and literature than in law. Accordingly from 1831 to 1834 he became associated with the Daily Commercial Intelligencer and wrote plays and poetry in his spare time. Before he was twenty-two he saw his first play, Conrad, King of Naples, successfully produced on January 17, 1832, at the Arch Street Theatre by James E. Murdoch. It was afterward played by John R. Scott. Realizing the dramatic possibilities offered by Jack Cade’s Rebellion (1450), Conrad worked on a blankverse play with Cade as hero, which he intended to name The Captain of the Commons or The Noble Yeoman, but which was announced for production by A. A. Addams at the Walnut Street Theatre on December 7, 1835 as Aylmere. Unfortunately Addams was intoxicated that evening and the premiere was postponed until the 9th, when David Ingersoll played the part of Cade. Addams essayed the role on February 1, 1836, but failed.
About this time Conrad was appointed judge of the court of criminal sessions in Philadelphia, which diverted his attention from literature for several years. He found time eventually to rewrite Aylmere as Aylmere, or The Kentish Rebellion, for Edwin Forrest, who produced it at the Forrest Theatre in New York, May 24, 1841, and at the Arch St. Theatre, Philadelphia, on June 16, 1841. The clumsy title was soon changed to Jack Cade, under which name the play had a permanent place in Forrest’s repertoire. Forrest was most successful in the role, which he also played in Europe (1868). After his death Jack Cade was produced by John McCullough and as late as 1888 by Edmund Collier. Others who assumed the part were Edward Eddy (1862, 1874) and Albert Roberts (1877). The success of Jack Cade made Conrad a literary figure in Philadelphia.
In 1843 he was chairman of the committee of judges that awarded to Edgar Allan Poe a prize of $100 for “The Gold Bug” as the best story submitted to the Dollar Magazine. He became in 1845 an associate editor of the North American and in 1848 assisted George R. Graham in editing Graham’s Magazine. In 1846 he edited a revised, abridged edition of Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, by John Sanderson and others, originally published (1820 - 1827) in seven volumes. In 1847 Joseph Reese Fry prepared a Life of General Zachary Taylor from material collected by Conrad; that work was reprinted in 1850 as Our Battles in Mexico.
During those years Conrad wrote various poems, including “The Sons of the Wilderness, ” on the wrongs of the Indians, and a series of sonnets on the Lord’s Prayer. In 1853 the Pennsylvania legislature passed an Act enlarging the City of Philadelphia by adding to it the twenty-nine districts, boroughs, and townships comprising the rest of Philadelphia County. Judge Conrad, as he was always called, became the candidate of the combined Whig and American parties for mayor of the newly consolidated city. At the election on June 1, 1854 he defeated Richard Vaux, the Democratic candidate, by 29, 507 votes to 21, 011.
Conrad was sworn in as the first mayor of greater Philadelphia on the first Monday of July, 1854. He served as mayor until the expiration of his term in 1856, when he was appointed to the bench of quarter sessions by Governor Pollock and served until the following year. He died at his home in Philadelphia.
His Devotional Poems (1862) were published posthumously. Among these later verses is “Sinai, ” a series of poems in Spenserian meter on the Ten Commandments. There is record of a third play by Conrad, entitled The Heretic, written for Forrest, produced at the Howard Athenaeum Boston, on June 1, 1863, and at the Broadway Theatre, New York, on September 17, 1866. It was also played at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, with Mrs. John Drew in the cast. The text, like that of Conrad of Naples, has not survived.
During his tenure in the office as a mayor, Robert T. Conrad handled with skill the difficult problems associated with the consolidation of city of Philadelphia and enforced the rigorous Sunday laws that were effective in all parts of the newly acquired territory. Conrad was also noted as an author of plays and poems. His contemporaries hailed him as a dramatic poet of Shakespearian quality; fortunately he did not live to witness the eclipse of his fame. His most famouse work was his tragedy of Aylmere and was said to be "one of the few American tragedies to hold the stage".
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While a mayor, Conrad strongly supported the Know-Nothing politics (another name for American Party), requiring even his policemen to be native-born Americans.
Conrad had a gracious manner and an attractive scholarly bearing. He was an accomplished orator of the old school, fond of sonorous verbiage and rhetorical flights.
