Reeves, Walter
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1848, near Brownsville, Pa. He removed to Illinois in 1856; in childhood lived on a farm; became a teacher and then a lawyer; was admitted to the bar of the state of Illinois in 1875; and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States in 1885. He was elected to the fifty-fourth, and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress. In politics he is a republican. He devoted himself to internal improvements of the country and especially of the state of Illinois. The construction and completion of the Illinois and Mississippi canal, and the improvement of the Chicago river at a total expenditure of about six and a half millions of dollars by the general government were part the results of his efforts.