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Reid, William Thomas

soldier, educator, was born Nov. 8, 1842, in Jacksonville, Ill. He received his education at Harvard college. During the war he served as a soldier in the union army, with the rank of sergeant, and was mustered out with recommendation as major. He has been headmaster of the high school of Newport, R. I.; headmaster's assistant of the Boston Latin school; superintendent Brookline schools; headmaster boys' high school of San Francisco; headmaster of the Belmont school, and president of the university of California. His administration was characterized by a wisely conservative devotion to high educational ideals; and after four years of tireless industry, he resigned to carry out a long-cherished plan of founding a school which should do for the Pacific coast what Rugby has done for England. In pursuance of this plan, he opened the Belmont school of Belmont, Cal., in 1885, of which he is still the head.