[p. 429] a representative citizen and general farmer, who resides on his well improved farm of 150 acres, which is situated five miles from New Wilmington, in Wilmington Township, lying on the east side of the state road, was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1856.
From the schools of his native neighborhood, Mr. Reed went to Edenburg and was a student there for one year, and then spent three years in Washington-Jefferson College, where he completed the classical course. The thoroughness and scope of his educational training prepared him for almost any career, but his tastes led him to subsequently adopt farming as his chosen occupation, and this he has continuously followed ever since leaving school, with the exception of three years when he engaged as a clerk in a hardware store, at Sharon, Pa. He then went to the West, and for a period of four years engaged in farming near Bavaria, Kan., returning to Pennsylvania in 1888, at which time he settled on his present farm. He has followed a general agricultural line, including the growing of staple crops and fruit and the raising of some good stock, and home dairying, meeting with the success that attends industry and intelligent management. His residence is a comfortable, two-story house of brick construction, with commodious barn and substantial farm buildings in the background.
On January 8, 1880, Mr. Reed was married at Sharon, Pennsylvania, to Mary M. Young, who is a daughter of Hugh Young, of that place. They have the following children: Lela Belle, who married W. E. Waddington, has one child, Florence; Anna Mary, who married Rev. C. B. Wible, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Volant, and David C., Edward Benjamin and Frederick James. Mr. Reed is a member of the Rich Hill Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder, and is also superintendent of the Sunday school. He is an active citizen without being a politician, but has never accepted any office except that of school director, in which he has served for the past ten years.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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