Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Reed, Charles Neff 1849 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 30, 2006, 2:45 am

Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    CHARLES NEFF REED was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1849.
At the early age of seven years he began the battle of life. At the close of the
rebellion, in which he participated as drummer-boy, orderly and spy in the Union
army for three years and five months, he went into the printing business, and
has since been identified with the press west of the Rocky mountains. He came to
Butte county in October, 1877, and was foreman and local editor of the Butte
County Register from November, 1877, until October of the following year, when
he assumed the editorial and business management of the Oroville Mercury. On the
twenty-ninth of October, 1879, he established the Herald at Gridley, making a
very successful venture, his paper being considered one of the newsiest and most
enterprising journals of the county. He is small in stature, but a hard worker,
and ever on the alert to assist in any movement calculated to benefit the
community in which he resides. He is a lineal descendant of General Joseph Reed,
of revolutionary fame, inheriting much of the spirit of '76, and is a worthy
type of the self-made men of the Pacific coast, Mr. Reed is a member of the
Oroville lodge No. 59, I. O. O. F.; also of the Oroville encampment No. 22, and
of the Washington camp No. 15, P. O. S. A. He is a member and founder of the J.
L. Ridgley lodge No. 65, degree of Rebekah, at Gridley.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/butte/bios/reed565nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/

File size: 2.7 Kb