Bartholomew-Rush County IN Archives Biographies.....Reeves, Milton Othello 1864 - 
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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

MILTON O. REEVES.

   Milton Othello Reeves, vice-president of the Reeves Pulley Company and
president of the People's Savings and Trust Company, and one of the foremost
citizens of Columbus, Indiana, was born on a farm in Rush county, Indiana, on
August 25, 1864. The Reeves family is originally of English stock, the family
name in the old country having been Reeve; 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 at Columbus, as a member of the predecessors of Reeves &
Company. He married Hannah M. Gilson, who was born in Rush county, Indiana, in
1831. M. O. Reeves was educated in the common schools of Rush county and at the
Knightstown (Indiana) Academy. After leaving school he returned to the farm in
Rush county, where he remained until 1884, and then came to Columbus and
associated himself in a clerical position with Reeves & Company. In 1888, when
the Reeves Pulley Company was formed, he became president of the same, a
position he held for a period of four years, when he resigned that position and
took the dual one of vice-president and general manager of the company, being
succeeded as president by his brother, Marshall T. Reeves. The People's Savings
and Trust Company was chartered in February, 1903, and •opened for business on
April 2d, the same year, with Mr. Reeves as president. He is also treasurer and
a director in the Columbus, Greensburg & Richmond Traction Company, and is a
director in the National Machine Company. Mr. Reeves has served as a member of
the city council, having been a member of that body when the present city
building was erected. He is an elder in the Christian church; also a Knight
Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Knights of Pythias.

   On October 26, 1882, Mr. Reeves married Miss Amanda M., the daughter of 
James B. and Malinda M. Kirkpatrick, all natives of Rush county, Indiana. To
this union the following children have been born: Alta D., Ross F., Paul B. 
and Carl M.


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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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