By Paul A. Wallace. Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's Indian ambassador, was one of the world's great Jack-of-all trades. Born in Germany, he arrived in the new World in the first Palatine immigration, and grew up in the Hudson and Mohawk valleys of New York. As a youth he lived several years in a Mohawk village where he learned the language. By the 1720's he had moved with his family to Pennsylvania where James Logan regularly began to employ him as an agent and interpreter. Trader, colonel in the French and Indian War, first President judge of Berks county and founder of Reading PA, a monk at the Ephrata Cloisters, pillar of the Lutheran Church, statesman, linguist, diplomat, woodsman were just a part of a long and distinguished careeràbut it was his work as an Indian agent that made his fame eternal. 6x9 664 pages index, notes, Cloth