HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO - BIO: REEDER, Robert B.  (published 1917)
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THE MAKING OF A TOWNSHIP
Being an Account of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Development of
FAIRMOUNT TOWNSHIP GRANT COUNTY, INDIANA 1829-1917
Edgar Baldwin Printing Company, 1917
Page 230, 231 with photo

        ROBERT B. REEDER, one of the enterprising farmers of Fairmount
Township, resides one mile and a half southwest of Fowlerton. He is a son
of William Henry Harrison and Elizabeth (Dealy) Reeder, the father born at
Centerville, Ohio, November 15, 1813, and the mother in Buckeye County,
Kentucky, December 29, 1824. William Henry Harrison Reeder died at his home
in Fairmount Township on June 24, 1885, and Mrs. Reeder passed away on May
6, 1892. George Reeder, the paternal grandfather, was born September 24,
1767, and married Margaret Van Cleve, at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2, 1796.
She died September 12, 1858. George Reeder served as a captain in the
American Army during the War of 1812. He died May 13, 1845.
        Robert B. Reeder is a native of Fairmount Township, where he was
born June 13, 1864. He was educated in the Township, attending schooling
winter and working on his father's farm in the spring and summer months. He
owns a farm of one hundred acres, part of which is the original Reeder
homestead, and has been quite successful in its management. In politics,
Mr. Reeder is a Progressive Republican and has served several terms as a
member of the Grant County Republican Central Committee. In 1912 he was the
choice of the Progressive party for the nomination of Representative in the
Legislature. As a member of Fowlerton Lodge No. 848, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, he passed all the chairs and was a delegate at one time to the
grand lodge. On February 5, 1892, he was married to Miss Hattie Glass, a
native of Rush County. Their children are Crystal, George S., B. Dora and
Edgar C., all graduates of high school or common school.

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