Biographical Sketch of B. F. Reed, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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B. F. Reed, a prominent farmer and stock raiser, was born on the Mer-
amec River, Franklin County, in 1828 and since about two years of age
has resided in the locality of his present home.  He was reared on a
farm, which occupation he has always followed, receiving his education
in the subscription schools of the county.  He resides on a well im-
proved farm of 185 acres, on which there is a valuable and extensive
deposit of white sand, a large per cent of which is silica; he also
owns two other tracts of land in 105 and 40 acre lots.  He was married
in 1850 to Miss Minnie Kurlbaum, a native of Germany, who came to the
United States with her parents when five years of age.  Mrs. Reed died
in 1870, at the age of thirty-nine years, leaving six children, viz.:
Emily, Jacob, Benjamin F., Pauline, Augusta and Edward.  In 1881 Mr.
Reed married Mrs. Augusta Thiebes, nee Pohlig.  They have three child-
ren: Henry, Walter and Oscar.  Mr. Reed affilates with the Democratic
party, and served a short time in the Missouri State Militia.  He is 
the second of six children born to John and Mary (Hooper) Reed, nativ-
es, respectively, of Kentucky and St. James County, Mo.  John Reed 
moved to what is now Franklin County, Mo., in 1811, he was a son of
Edward and Margaret Reed, natives of near Lexington, Ky.  He was a 
soldier of the War of 1812, and served in the Missouri Rangers at a
very early day.  Mrs. Mary Reed was a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca
(Brown) Hooper, the former a native of South Carolina, and a soldier
of the War of 1812, and the latter a daughter of John Brown, of Irish
descent.

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