REED, JOSEPH SAMUEL: 1852 circa 1920.
Born in Sullivan County, Ind., in 1852, Joseph Samuel Reed attended the public schools of Sullivan until 1862, when he moved with his father to a farm in Fairbanks Township. He then attended the district schools and in 1870 entered Franklin College, where he remained one year. In 1875 he married Emma Davis.
Following his year at college, he returned to Sullivan and became a drug clerk and in 1875 engaged in the drug business for himself. He was a member of the Western Association of Writers, serving as treasurer of that organization for three years.
Mr. Reed died about 1920.
Information from Art Souvenir of Leading Citizens and Farmers' Directory of Sullivan County, Indiana, 1896 and THE INDIANAN, Vol. III, No. 2.
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