Biography of Charles C. Reid - Conway Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 101

Charles C. Reid, a brilliant and promising young attorney of the firm
of Moose & Reid, was born in Johnson County, June 15, 1868. He was the
second in a family of three children born to C. C. and Sallie A.
(Robinson) Reid. Mr. Reid removed with his family to Lewisburg, where
he soon began the practice of law and became one of the most able
attorneys of the Conway County bar. He was particularly noted for his
oratorical ability. He died in the zenith of his popularity, and his
death is spoken of now by former friends as having snapped the thread
of a promising career. The subject of this sketch attended school at
Lewisburg till the age of 13 years, when he entered the State
University at Fayetteville, where he remained four years, completing
his literary studies. At the commencement exercises on this occasion,
he won the medal in the annual debate in a contest with J. W. Walker,
a son of Senator Walker. Our subject, now only in his 17th year,
entered the law department of Vanderbilt University at Nashville
Tenn., remaining there two years. He graduated on his 19th birthday,
June 15, 1886. He was chosen by the Faculty as one of the four to
contend for the Orator's medal at the commencement exercises of that
year, and for the second time, against the most able talent of the
college, the high honor of excelling all was accorded to Mr. Reid, and
the medal was fairly won. In all other contests in the University for
oratorical honors, in which our subject engaged, he was always
successful. The first year he won the declaimer's medal, and later in
the same year he won the medal at the annual debate, chosen by the
members of the literary society, against members of other societies.
This gift of nature (of great benefit to a lawyer, and undoubtedly
inherited from his father) has been so cultivated under able tutors
that his ability has become more generally known than perhaps any
other person of his age in the State. He was admitted to the bar the
first Monday in October, 1886, by order of the Circuit Court removing
his disability as a minor. He immediately formed his present business
connection with Mr. Moose, and the firm of Moose & Reid, lawyers, at
Morrilton, is justly noted for the legal attainments of its members,
as well as their high standing as gentlemen of moral and social worth.
Mr. Reid was united in marriage to Miss Emma Geraldine Crozier, a
daughter of H. V. Crozier, January 30, 1890. They are both members of
the M. E. Church, South, and both active workers in the Sabbath School
of that church. Mr. Reid is a member of the Knights of Pythias,
Hermion Lodge, No. 28.