Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Reid, Dudley S. 1824 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

DUDLEY S. REID, of Mundy Township, Genesee County, is a son of Benjamin D. Reid,
who was born in New York, and grandson of John Reid, a Scotchman. Ellis Shaw,
who became the wife of Benjamin D. Reid and the mother of our subject, was born
in New York.

  Our subject is the ninth in a family of eleven children and was born in Rush,
Monroe County, N. Y., August 15, 1824. At the age of ten years he came with his
parents to Genesee County, Mich., and soon after their arrival here the parents
died, leaving the orphaned children in Grand Blanc Township, this county. Here
Dudley grew to manhood and early found employment among neighbors in Grand Blanc
and Mundy Townships. He has devoted himself mostly to farming although he was
for two years when a young man engaged in shoemaking.

  Mr. Reid was married in Grand Blanc Township in 1848, to Julia A. Hallock, a
Vermonter by birth. For four years they lived in Grand Blanc Township and then
settled on a farm which is now the family home in Mundy Township. They had six
children: Frank S., a farmer; Kittie, the wife of John Beckwith; John F., a
merchant in South Dakota; Fred A.; Grant V., a merchant at Sioux City, Iowa; and
Jennie, now Mrs. Philip Alexander. Mrs. Julia A. Reid died in Mundy Township, in
November, 1864.

  The second marriage of our subject took place in Lowell, Kent County, Mich.,
March 11, 1866, his bride being Mrs. Martha (Cofflin) Wilson, daughter of
Michael and Martha (Freeman) Cofflin and widow of Joseph Wilson, who died in
Lowell, Mich., in July, 1864. Six children were born of this marriage, namely:
Merritt, Martha J., Carlos, Ardella, Horace and Ella.

  Mr. Reid in his political views is attached to the doctrines and policy of the
Republican party. Mrs. Reid is an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist
Church. Upon this farm our subject has erected a first-class set of farm
buildings and the estate comprises one hundred and twenty broad and fertile
acres. He is a public-spirited man and one who has the welfare of his township
at heart. The influence exerted by this valued family is ever in the direction
of forwarding the welfare of the community and the prosperity, both social and
material, of the people of the township.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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