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Source:
A Centennial Biographical History
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Richland and Ashland County, Ohio

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A. J. Baughman, Editor
Chicago
The Lewis Publishing Co.
1901
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)

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  GEORGE W. REED, editor and proprietor of the Advertiser, of Plymouth, was born Mar. 30, 1859, in Salem, Ohio.  His father, James Reed, was a native of eastern Ohio, born in 1819, and was of German lineage.  He died at Attica, Ohio, in 1884.  His wife, Mrs. Delilah Reed, was born in Ohio in 1819, and on the mother's side was of Irish lineage.  The grand-parents of our subject, however, were natives of Pennsylvania, removing to eastern Ohio at an early period of its development and in that part of the state spent their remaining days, and when death came over there laid to rest.  Mrs. Reed died in Attica, Ohio, in 1887, in her sixty-eighth year.  She became the mother of four sons and four daughters, of whom all but one daughter are yet living:  James M. Reed, now fifty-one years of age, is a mechanic living in Clyde, Ohio; William F. is a contractor of Hutchinson, Kansas, and is forty-nine years of age; Clifford W., aged thirty-two, is in the service of the Western Union Telegraphy Company, of Chicago, Illinois.  The sons are all married and are in prosperous circumstances.  The daughters are Mrs. Alvira Spencer; Mrs. W. O. Heavler of Attica, Ohio; Mrs. Charles Hardie, of Clyde, Ohio; and Mrs. John Stark, deceased, formerly of Rising Son, Ohio.
     George Willard Reed was only a year old when his parents removed from Salem to Attica.  A year later they took up their abode at West Union, Fayette county, Iowa, where they lived for two years.  On the expiration of that period they returned to Attica and Mr. Reed, of this review, was a resident of the latter city until 1882.  He acquired his education in the public schools and on laying aside his text-books to learn the more difficult lessons in the school of experience he entered upon an apprenticeship in a printing office.  He was then seventeen years of age.  He soon mastered the business and was employed for several years on the Attica Journal, owned and published by Charles Clough.  Following Horace Greeley's advice to young men, to go west and grow up with the country, he made his way to Pierre, South Dakota, where he was employed on the Daily Signal for three years.  In 1885 he came to Plymouth and began work on the paper which he now owns.  For ten years he was its foreman and for three years was its editor and manager.  He then purchased the paper, on the 1st of April, 1898, and has since conducted it, still acting as its editor.  The Advertiser is a wide-awake and popular journal, independent in politics and well supported by the citizens of Plymouth and vicinity.  It has a circulation of one thousand and its patronage is steadily increasing.
     On the 12th day of May, 1886, in Plymouth, Mr. Reed was united in marriage to Miss Rosa L. Derringer, of Plymouth, one of the popular young ladies of the city.  They now have three children, Evan P., Amy E. and Kenneth M., aged respectively, thirteen, eleven and three years.  Mrs. Reed is a daughter of William Derringer, of Plymouth, a cooper by trade, and one of the most highly esteemed citizens of his town, where he and his wife have resided since 1860.  Mr. Reed is a past chief of the Ben Hur Tribe of Plymouth.  In politics he is a stalwart Republican, and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  They are widely known in this city and in the county and enjoy the hospitality of many oof the best homes here.  Mr. Reed is public-spirited and progressive, and through the columns of his paper and through personal influence and financial support contributes to the advancement of all measures which he believes will prove of general good.  His social qualities and his sterling worth render him popular and he enjoys the high regard of all with whom he is brought in contact.

Source:  A Centennial Biographical History of Richland and Ashland County, Ohio - Publ. 1901 - Page 217

 

 

 

 

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