Biographical Sketch of A. P. Reed, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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A. P. Reed, physician and surgeon, P. O. Concordia.  Born in Jackson
county, Illinois, June 28, 1844.  His early life was spent in the place
of his birth up to the opening of the civil war.  In 1862 he enlisted 
in Company E, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he took
an active part in the following engagements:  South Mountain and Anti-
etam.  He was badly wounded in the latter battle, in consequence of which
he lay in the hospital for two months, after which he was discharged and
sent home.  Having regained his former health, he re-enlisted in Company
E, Second Missouri Cavalry. Was engaged in the battles of Cape Girardeau,
Bloomfield, and in Col. Glover's celebrated charge at Black Jack Ridge,
near Four Mile, Missouri.  He also assisted in the capture of the cele-
brated guerrilla, Bolin.  He was twice captured by the guerrillas, but 
happily succeeded in making his escape each time.  Shortly after the war,
at the age of 22, he entered the university at Nashville, taking the 
medical course, in which he graduated with honor.  Shortly after he was
married to Julia R. Schwab, a native of Switzerland, by whom he had three
children, none of whom are living.  After his marriage he went to south-
east Missouri, where he was engaged in the practice of medicine for 12
years at Allenville, Cape Gerardeau county.  From there he went to St.
Louis, living there about eighteen months, after whick he located in this
county at Concordia, where he has since resided, enjoying a lucrative
practice.  In 1877 he was again united in marriage, to Miss Olive Reed,
a native of Ohio.  They have one child, Paul A.  Mrs. Reed is a graduate
of Mt. Hope Seminary, Kentucky, and a highly cultivated and estimable
lady.

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