Bartholomew-Rush-Johnson County IN Archives Biographies.....Reeves, Girney L. 1871 - 
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

p. 200-201

GIRNEY L. REEVES.

   Prominent among the representative citizens of Columbus, Indiana, is Girney
L. Reeves, secretary and treasurer of the Reeves Pulley Company. The Reeves
family is of English stock. The family name in England was Reeve, and in fact
members of the family are to be found in this country who spell their name that
way. But that branch from which the subject comes spelled their name with the
final "s." The grandfather of the subject was Jabez Reeves, a native of Brown
county, Ohio, born in 1806. He married Nancy Coe and in 1828 he removed to
Indiana. He entered a tract of government land in Rush county in the above year,
cleared, it and established what is now the Reeves homestead, which is still in
the family. The father of Jabez Reeves, Eli Reeves, was in all probability born
in Pennsylvania, his father being Asa Reeves. William F. Reeves, the father of
the subject, was also born in Brown county, Ohio, his birth having occurred in
1827. He was brought by his parents to Indiana when he was six months of age. He
was reared on the old homestead and became a man of comfortable means, widely
known and of excellent standing. He engaged in manufacturing during a portion of
his life, both at Knightstown and Columbus, as a member of the predecessors of
Reeves & Company. He married Hannah M. Gilson, who was born in Rush county,
Indiana, in 1831. Girney L. Reeves was born at the Reeves homestead in Rush
county, Indiana, on November 17, 1871. The first sixteen years of his life were
spent on the farm in a manner common to boys in his condition in life. He
attended the common schools of his neighborhood and during the years 1886 and
1887 he attended the city high school of Columbus, Indiana. Two years later he
entered Butler University, at Irvington, Indiana, where he spent one year,
leaving that institution in 1889 to return to Columbus and assume the
secretaryship of the Reeves Pulley Works, which in that year had been removed
from Edinburg to this city, he becoming the successor of Messrs. M. M. and A. B.
Reeves in the company, At that time the works were a small affair, employing on
an average of fifteen workmen, the plant being located in a wing of the Reeves &
Company factory. Only the "Reeves wood split pulley" was manufactured at that
time. In 1890 the present large brick factory of the company was completed,
which is one of the largest in this part of the state. In 1897 was added to
their manufactured product the "Reeves wood split pulley clutch," and in 1899
was added the "Reeves variable speed transmission." Mr. Reeves was elected
secretary of the company in 1890, and in 1891 was chosen secretary and
treasurer, which dual office he has since held. Mr. Reeves has other important
business interests, he being financially interested in Reeves & Company and a
member of the board of directors of the People's Savings Bank and Trust Company
of Columbus.

   Mr. Reeves is deeply interested in church and kindred work and gives freely
of his time and means for the prosecution of work along these lines. He is
president of the board of deacons of the Christian church, is a member of the
board of directors of the State Young Men's Christian Association of Indiana,
and is president of the Civic League of Columbus. He is a member of the Columbia
Club of Indianapolis and is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, having
taken both the York and Scottish Rite degrees up to and including the
thirty-second, and also the Mystic Shrine. In politics he is liberal and
inclined to independence in local matters, but has always supported the
Republican party in national affairs.

   Mr. Reeves was married, on December 4, 1895, to Miss Maude Jewell, of
Columbus, and to them the following children have been born: William, Robert and
Elizabeth.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER

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