TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIO: REED, George Washington (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, 246-247

        GEORGE WASHINGTON REED, who has been established in the successful
practice of law at Uhrichsville for more than a quarter of a century and
who has gained distinct prestige as one of the representative members of
the bar of his native County of Tuscarawas, has extended his practice into
the higher courts, including the Ohio Supreme Court and the Federal Courts
of the state, and in his profession he was won many important victories in
connection with both criminal and civil cases, the while he has maintained
high reputation as a well fortified counselor.
        Mr. Reed was born on the parental homestead farm in Union Township,
Tuscarawas County, and the date of his nativity was February 20, 1863. He
is a son of John and Jane Reed, both now deceased. John Reed was born on
the farm on which was born the subject of this sketch, where he was reared
and educated and where he passed the remainder of his life. He became one
of the substantial farmers and honored and influential citizens of Union
Township, where he owned a well improved landed estate and where he
continued to reside until his death in 1919, at the venerable age of
ninety-one years. His father, William Reed, was born in Ireland, came to
America in 1824, and established his residence first in New Brunswick,
Canada, whence he later came, in 1825, to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he
developed a productive farm and where he and his wife remained until the
close of their lives.
        George W. Reed gained in his boyhood and earlier youth a goodly
measure of fellowship with the work of the home farm, and after having duly
profited by the curriculum of the public schools he entered Ohio University
at Athens, in which he was in due course graduated, his degree of Bachelor
of Arts having been later supplemented by that of Master of Arts, likewise
granted him by his alma mater. His preparation for this chosen profession
included a course in the law department of historic old University of
Virginia, and in 1896 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, as a member of which
he has since continued to be successfully engaged in practice at
Uhrichsville. He has served as president of the Tuscarawas Bar Association,
and in the summer of 1924, as a delegate from this association, he attended
the meeting of the American Bar Association, which he accompanied to
London, England, where the organization was entertained with distinction by
the English Bar Association. Incidental to this trip to London Mr. Reed
found opportunity also to visit France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland,
Belgium and Ireland, and while on his visit to the Emerald Isle he had the
satisfaction of going to the old home of his paternal ancestors in County
Donegal.
        Prior to engaging in the practice of law Mr. Reed had made a record
of successful achievement as a teacher in the public schools, and his
income from this source enabled him to pursue his higher academic and his
law studies. He first taught in the schools of Ohio, and after his
graduation from Ohio University he served in turn as principal of the
public schools at Del Norte, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He has
never abated his interest in educational matters, and is ever ready to aid
in advancing the standards of educational work. His final pedagogic service
was as principal of the public schools of McConnellsville, Ohio.
        Mr. Reed is affiliated with the Beta Theta Pi College fraternity,
the Improved Order of Red Men and the Masonic fraternity. He has been a
most earnest and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many
years, and has held official positions in the same, is a teacher of the
Bible Class in the Sunday school, and on one occasion was honored in being
selected a delegate to the General Conference of the church. He has been
content to give his undivided attention to his profession, and has had no
desire for political activity or public office. His elder son, Paul F., is
now associated with him in the practice of law, under the title of Reed &
Reed, and of this son more specific mention is made in later paragraphs of
this review.
        The year 1888 recorded the marriage of Mr. Reed and Miss Clara
Murtland Baker, who was born in Pennsylvania, and she passed to the life
eternal in the year 1922. Mrs. Reed is survived by four children: Hazel,
Paul Foster, George E. and Dorothy.
        Paul Foster Reed, junior member of the law firm of Reed & Reed, as
indicated in the preceding paragraph, was born at Athens, Ohio, November
26, 1892. He received the advantages of the public schools and thereafter
was for one year a student in Ohio University, in his native city, where
also he became affiliated with his father's fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. He
was for two years a student in the law department of the University of
Ohio, at Columbus, and was there made a member of the Acacia fraternity. He
was admitted to the bar in 1920, and has since been associated with his
father in active general practice at Uhrichsville.
        Soon after the nation became involved in the World war Paul F. Reed
volunteered, June 4, 1917, for service in the United States Army, and his
enlistment took place on the 1st of the following month. He volunteered for
service in the medical department, and in the same he has given the rank of
sergeant of the first class. He was overseas nine months, in service at the
headquarters of the Thirty-seventh Division of the American Expeditionary
Forces, and he continued in active service until he received his honorable
discharge, April 12, 1919. He took part in two major offensive movements
and one major defense. After his discharge he resumed to study of law, and
in due time was admitted to practice, as previously noted in this context.
Mr. Reed is affiliated with the American Legion, the Elks, and the Masonic
fraternity, in which last he is a Knight Templar, besides having received
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He and his wife hold
membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Uhrichsville, In 1917 Mr.
Reed wedded Miss Ruth Brunner, of Uhrichsville, and they have three
children: John P., George R. and Richard B.





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