BIOGRAPHY: John REED, Warble, Juniata Co., PA
  
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  The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, 
  Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, 
  Pennsylvania.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, 
  Page 871.
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    JOHN REED, Warble, Juniata county, Pa., son of Robert and Diana
  (Endslow) Reed, was born April 25, 1825. His father was a farmer of
  Chester county, who with his brother, Hugh Reed, came to the
  Tuscarora valley in 1810, having exchanged a mill property in Chester
  county for 250 acres of woodland in Juniata county. The brothers
  cleared and improved the land, and here Robert Reed engaged in
  farming and stock raising until his death in 1869. He served as
  private in the war of 1812. Mr. Reed was married to Diana, daughter
  of Abraham Endslow, who was of English descent. Their children were:
  John; Abraham, deceased; Daniel, died young; Martha A., widow of
  James Orr, deceased; Margaret J. (Mrs. James Kidd), deceased; Sarah
  Ellen (Mrs. Henderson Wilson), deceased of Ohio; Elizabeth M. (Mrs.
  William Robinson), of Franklin county, Pa.; and Nancy (Mrs. James A.
  Fitzgerald). Mrs. Robert Reed died on the homestead in 1859.
    John Reed attended the public schools, and has spent his whole life
  on the homestead. From his fatheris retirement he managed the farm
  until 1892, since which time he has lived retired. He is a free
  silver Democrat, and has served as judge and clerk of elections, and
  as school director. Mr. Reed was married in 1855 to Margaret A.,
  daughter of John McCullough, a cabinet-maker and undertaker of
  Waterford. They have four children: Robert S.; Flora Myers, has two
  children, Grace and John A.; Anne M. (Mrs. William Conn); Ellen (Mrs.
  Menno E. Esh); and Almira Josephine. Mr. Reed is a member of the
  United Brethren church at McCoysville, Pa.