Morgan-Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Reed, John S. 1839 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN S. REED, Manager of the Decatur Tavern, was born in Franklin County,
Mass., in 1839, and is of the old Puritan stock. He was educated at Troy, N. Y.
In 1855, he went to Davenport, Iowa, where he engaged in running a saw-mill, and
lost his right arm. He entered the Quartermaster's Department of the Federal
Army, in the Department of the Cumberland, where he became chief clerk under
Major Smith, and in which department he went through the Georgia campaign, and
finally to Texas. He came to Huntsville in 1865, and engaged in business with A.
F. Murray.

  In 1880, he was appointed postmaster at Huntsville, and held that office until
the spring of 1887, when he accepted the management of the Decatur, Ala.,
Mineral Company. In the fall of the same year he accepted the management of the
"The Tavern." at Decatur, which is one of the finest hotels in Alabama. It has a
capacity for three hundred guests.

  Mr. Reed was married, in 1881, to Miss Theo. Temple, of Tennessee, a lady of
superior education and musical accomplishment.

  They are members of the Presbyterian Church. and he is an Odd Fellow.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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