Morgan-Pueblo-Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Reid, Willard 1881 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

WILLARD REID.

    On the roster of county officials in Morgan county appears the name of
William Reid, who is filling the office of county treasurer. He was horn in
Washington county, New York, December 4, 1881, a son of Donald and Harriet
(Reid) Reid, who were also natives of the Empire state, where the father
followed the occupation of farming until 1904, save for the period of the Civil
war, when his patriotic spirit prompted him to put aside all business and other
considerations and respond to the country's call for troops. It was in 1862 that
he enlisted as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-third New York
Infantry, of which he became a lieutenant and with that rank he served until the
close of the war. When the country no longer needed his aid he returned home and
resumed the occupation of farming in Washington county, New York, where he
remained until 1904, when he sold his property there and came to Colorado,
settling at Fort Morgan, where his remaining days were passed, his death
occurring in September, 1915. His widow survives and is yet a resident of Fort
Morgan.

    Willard Reid was reared and educated in his native county, pursuing his high
school course at Saranac Lake, New York, while later he entered the Westminster
College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated with the class
of 1904. He afterward took up the profession of teaching in the public schools
of Saranac Lake, where he remained until the fall of 1904, when he came to Fort
Morgan, Colorado, on account of the death of his brother. He resigned his
teaching position in New York in order to come to this state and never returned
to the east. He resumed teaching in Colorado and was thus engaged for two years,
after which he devoted his time to teaming and later worked in a lumberyard for
a while. He afterward became bookkeeper and then auditor with the Warren Lumber
Company, which operates six yards. In 1916, however, he was called to public
office by being elected county treasurer of Morgan county, in which capacity he
is now efficiently and acceptably serving. He resides upon and cultivates a
forty acre farm, a mile and a half north of Fort Morgan and he is regarded as
one of the representative citizens of the community.

    On the 9th of October, 1909, Mr. Reid was married to Miss Caroline E. Riggs,
a daughter of Alexander and Caroline (Chambers) Riggs, who were pioneer
residents of Colorado and came across the plains in a prairie schooner in 1882,
at which time they took up their abode at Colorado Springs. Subsequently they
resided at Gunnison, at Pueblo and at Denver. The father was a farmer before his
removal to the west but on coming to this state turned his attention to
prospecting and thereafter followed mining until he passed away in Denver in
1892. His widow survived him until 1909. Their daughter, Mrs. Reid, was a
successful teacher and introduced manual training into the schools of Fort
Morgan, being the first teacher of that line of work. She was graduated from the
State Teachers College as a member of the class of 1905 and successfully taught
for four years prior to her marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Reid have been born two
children: Willard Malcolm, whose birth occurred October 9, 1910; and Eva
Harriet, born January 6, 1913.

    In his political views Mr. Reid is and has always been a democrat, giving
stalwart support to the party and its principles. His religious faith is that of
the United Presbyterian church, in the work of which he takes a very active and
helpful part. He is now serving as one of the elders of the church and for the
past seven years has been superintendent of its Sunday school. His is an
honorable and upright life and his career has been one of usefulness,
contributing to the welfare and progress of the community in which he makes his
home.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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