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Reid, James

college president, was born in Canada. In 1890 he was elected president of the college of Montana, which position he still holds.

Reid, James Madison

railroad president, was born April 10, 1849, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He is president of the Ursina and North Fork railway at Connellsville, Ga.

Reid, James Wesley

lawyer, congressman, was born June 11, 1849, in Wentworth, N. C. He was elected county treasurer of Rockingham county, N. C., in 1874; and was continuously re-elected until November, 1884. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-ninth congress; and in January, 1855, at a special election, was elected to the forty-eighth congress to fill a vacancy.

Reid, John Morrison

clergyman, author, was born May 30, 1820, in New York city. He is a methodist clergyman and editor of religious journals who secured the library of Von Ranke for Syracuse university. He is the author of Missions of the Methodist Church; and Doomed Religions.

Reid, John W

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 14, 1821, in Lynchburg, Va. He settled in Jackson county; served two sessions in the Missouri legislature; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress. He was expelled from the house in December, 1861.

Reid, Mrs. Mary J

poet. She is a writer of Alameda, Cal., and her poems have appeared in the leading magazines and journals of California.

Reid, Robert

artist, was born July 29, 1863, in Stockbridge, Mass. He has attained a world wide reputation as a successful artist of New York.

Reid, Robert Raymond

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1789 in Beaufort District, S. C. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1818 to 1823, and was elected mayor of Augusta on his retirement from congress. He was also a judge of the superior court of Georgia, and in 1832 was appointed district judge for eastern Florida. He was appointed governor of the territory of Florida from 1839 to 1841. He died July 1, 1841, near Tallahassee, Fla.

Reid, Samuel Chester

lawyer, author, was born Oct. 21, 1818, in New York: city. He is a lawyer of New Orleans, and the author of The United States Bankrupt Law of 1841; and The Battle of Chickamauga.

Reid, Whitelaw

journalist, author, was born Oct. 27, 1837, in Xenia, Ohio.

He early began to edit papers with great success, and his abilities as a war correspondent, during the civil war, gave him great distinction. In 1869 he became managing editor of the New York Tribune. He was the author of After the War, a Southern Tour; Ohio in the War; Schools of Journalism; and Newspaper Tendencies.

Reid, William James

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 17, 1834, in South Argyle, N. Y. He is a united presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Pittsburg from 1889, and the author of Lectures on the Revelation; and United Presbyterianism.

Reid, William S

college president, was born April 21, 1778, in Chester county, Pa. In 1806 he was elected president of Hampden-Sidney college. He died June 23, 1853.