Reed, Joseph – Reeves, Henry A
Reed, Joseph
lawyer, author, was born July 11, 1772, in Philadelphia, Pa.
From 1800 to 1809 he was a prothonotary of the supreme court, and then attorneygeneral of Pennsylvania in 1810-11. He became recorder of the city of Philadelphia in 1810, continuing in that office till 1829; and published The Laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes.
Reed, Joseph
soldier, was born Aug. 27, 1841, in Trenton, N. J. He was a distinguished soldier of the revolutionary war; and in 1878 was elected president of the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, resigning in 1881.
Reed, Joseph R
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born March 12, 1835, in Ashland county, Ohio.
He was a member of the Iowa state senate in 1866 and 1868; was judge of the district court from Sept. 1, 1872, to Jan. 1, 1884, and judge of the supreme court of the state from the latter date to 1889; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican. In 1891 he was appointed chief justice of the court of private law claims, which position he still holds.
Reed, Joseph Samuel
merchant, poet, was born in December, 1852, in Sullivan, Ind. He is a successful merchant in his native city; the author of a volume of poems entitled Winnowed Grasses, which bears the imprint of nature; and his writings appear in various periodicals and standard collections.
Reed, Philip
state senator, congressman, was born about 1760, in Kent county, Md. He was a senator in congress from Maryland from 1806 to 1813; and was a representative in congress from 1817 to 1819, and again from 1822 to 1823.
He died Nov. 2, 1829, in Huntingville, Md.
Reed, Robert R
physician, state legislator, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He served one or two terms in the legislature of Pennsylvania; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851. He died Dec. 15, 1864, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Reed, Sampson
journalist, author, was born June 10, 1800, in West Bridgewater, Mass. He was a Swedenborgian writer of Boston, editor of The New Church Magazine for Children, and the author of Observations on the Growth of the Mind. He died July 8, 1880, in Boston, Mass.
Reed, Thomas Brackett
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1839, in Portland, Maine. He was a member of the Maine state house of representatives in 1868-69, and of the state senate in 1870; was attorney-general of Maine in 1870-72; and was city solicitor of Portland in 1874-77. He was elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventn, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fiftyfourth congresses; and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He was elected speaker of the house of representatives Dec. 2, 1889, Dec. 2, 1895, and March 15, 1897.
Reed, William
merchant, philanthropist, congressman, was born in 1777, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a member of congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1815. Besides liberal bequests to heirs and relatives, he left $68,000 to benevolent objects. He died Feb. 18, 1837, in Marblehead, Mass.
Reed, William Bradford
lawyer, author, was born June 30, 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was attorney-general in Pennsylvania in 1838; was United States minister to China in 1857 and 1858; and negotiated the treaty ratified in 1861. He was the author of Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed; Life of Esther Reed; Vindication of Joseph Reed. He died Feb. 18, 1886, in New York city.
Reeder, Andrew Horatio
lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born Aug. 6, 1807, in Easton, Pa. In 1854 he was appointed the first governor of Kansas; and subsequently served in congress; and was also a United States senator. He was the author of Kansas. He died July 5, 1854, in Easton, Pa.
Reeder, Charles
merchant, manufacturer, author, was born Oct. 30, 1817, in Baltimore, Md. He is a merchant and manufacturer of Baltimore; and the author of Caloric, a Review of the Dynamic Theory of Heat.
Reeder, Frank
soldier, lawyer, was born May 22, 1845, in Easton, Pa. He served through the civil war; attaining for meritorious services the rank of brigadier-general. At the close of the war he studied law and practiced in New York.
Rees, John Krom
astronomer, educator, author, was born Oct. 27, 1851, in New York city. He is an astronomer, professor at Columbia college, and director of the observatory from 1881. He is the author of Report on the Solar Eclipse, 1878; International Time System; and Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1882.
Reese, Chauncey B
civil engineer, was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Canastota, N.
Y. He rendered valuable service in the Virginia peninsular campaign, in constructing bridges, roads, and field works; particularly the bridge, 2,000 feet in length, over the Chickahominy. He died Sept. 22, 1870, in Mobile, Ala.
Reese, David A
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1853 to 1855.
Reese, David Meredith
physician, author, was born in 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an eminent physician of New York city, superintendent of the city public schools at one period, and the author of Strictures on Health; Review of the Anti-Slavery Society's First Annual Report; Quakerism versus Calvinism; Phrenology Known by Its Fruits; Medical Lexicon of Modern Terminology; and Humbugs of New York. He died Aug. 12, 1861, in New York city.
Reese, John James
physician, educator, author, was born June 16, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physician, professor of jurisprudence in the university of Pennsylvania, and the author of American Medical Formulary; Analysis of Physiology; Manual of Toxicology; and Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence.
Reese, Levi H
clergyman, was born Feb. 8, 1806, in Harford county, Md. In 1826 he entered the ministry of the methodist episcopal church. In the controversy that resulted in the formation of the methodist protestant church, he joined the Union society, became secretary of that body, and was the first pastor that was ordained in that organization.
He died Sept. 21, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Reese, Lizette Woodworth
educator, poet, was born in 1856, in Maryland. She is a poet and educator of Baltimore, and the author of A Branch of May; A Handful of Lavender; and A Quiet Road.
Reese, Seaborn
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 1846, in Madison, Ga, In 1872 he was elected a representative in the Georgia. state legislature for the term of two years; was solicitor-general of the northern judicial circuit from 1877 to 1880; and was a presidential elector in 1880. He was. elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Reese, Thomas
clergyman, author,. was born in 1742, in Pennsylvania. He became pastor of Salem church, S. C. He published a valuable essay on the Influence of Religion on Civil Society. He died August, 1794, in Pendleton, S. C.
Reese, William M
college presi-- dent, was born Dec. 16, 1847, in Warren: county, Ga. In 1885 he was elected president of the Baptist college at Mt. Lebanon, La., which position he resigned after many years of service on account of ill-health.
Reeve, Emily A
educator, poet, was born March 23, 1859, in Franklin county, Iowa. She received her education in the common schools, the Geneva school, and graduated from the Iowa State Agricultural college. She has been a successful teacher and county superintendent of schools; and her poems have been extensively published in the newspapers of Iowa.
Reeve, Isaac Van Duzen
soldier, was born July 29, 1813, in Butternuts, N. Y. He was brevetted brigadier-general in the United States army in 1865. for faithful and meritorious service during the civil war. He died Dec. 31, 1890, in New York city.
Reeve, James Knapp
author, was: born in 1856, in New York. He is a novelist of Franklin, Ohio, and the author of Vawder's Understudy; and The Three Richard Whalens.
Reeve, Tapping
lawyer, jurist, au-- thor, was born Oct. 1, 1744, in Brookhaven. He was an eminent jurist of Litchfield, Conn., and the author of Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Servant and Master; and Treatise on the Law of Descents in the Several United States.
He died Dec. 13, 1823, in Richfield, Conn.
Reeve, William W
soldier, clergyman, was born Oct. 12, 1832, near Selma, Ala. He graduated with first honor at the Howard college, Ala., and took a full course and graduated from Rochester Theological seminary of New York city.
He went into the confederate army as captain of artillery; was afterward elected major; and subsequently promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He has traveled in Europe; and is now a baptist clergyman in Eufaula, Ala. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by the university of Alabama.
Reeves, Henry A
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born in 1833, in Sag Harbor, N. Y. He graduated at Union college, N. Y., in 1852, taught school for two years; studied law. He came to the bar in Brooklyn in 1857; and in 1858: purchased the Republican Watchman, published at Greenport, L. I., and edited the same. In 1861 he was arrested by order of Secretary Seward and confined for five weeks in Fort Lafayette for alleged disloyalty. In 1868 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress as a democrat,