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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  HENRY H. READ, in whose honor the town in which he now resides was named, is

one of the pioneer settlers of Nobles county. He is a native of Montgomery

county, Ohio, where he was born Feb. 17, 1851, son of Joseph E. and Czarina

(Houser) Read, natives of Maryland and Ohio, respectively. Both parents are

dead, the mother having passed away in 1884 and the father four years later. On

his father's side Mr. Read is of German and Irish descent; on his mother's side,

German.



  In his native county Mr. Read lived until he was four years of age, at which

time the family moved to Pulaski county, Ind., when that part of the state was a

new and wild country. Henry Read received his education in the Pulaski county

schools, finishing with a course in a graded town school in Ohio. In the fall of

1868 the Reads moved to Shelby county, Ohio, and there our subject lived,

engaged in farm work, until April, 1873. He was married in Logan county, Ohio,

April 17, 1873, to Eliza Catherine Hill, daughter of George and Jane (Gish)

Hill. Her father died in 1894; her mother a 1905. Mrs. Read's great grandfather

came to America when an infant and founded the American branch of the family.

Both the parents died during the trip over, and the passengers, not knowing the

family name, took care of the infant and named him Hill.



  After his marriage Mr. Read moved to Worthington, arriving in that town May 2.

1873. He contested a tree claim on land upon which the village of Reading is now

situated, but by reason of the grasshopper scourge changed the filing to a

preemption and proved up on it. He did not at once move onto his land, but from

1873 to 1876 farmed his father's farm on Loon lake, in Jackson county. In the

last named year he took up his residence on his Summit Lake township farm, and

that has been his home ever since. For a number of years Mr. and Mrs. Read lived

in a little shack, which was without a floor and many other accommodations.



   When Reading was founded in 1899, Mr. Read retired from active farm work. In

the early days he served as a member of the board of supervisors of Summit Lake

township three or four years, was township treasurer one term, and has held the

office of director or clerk of school district No. 7 nearly all of the time he

has resided in the county. Mr. Read is a member of the prohibition party and a

temperance worker. It has been largely through his influence that saloons have

been kept out of Reading.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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