Bios of JOSEPH MARSHALL REED.
 
   Joseph Marshall Reed, secretary of the Home Building & Loan 
Association,is a man whose keen discernment enables him to take 
cognizance of every phase, side and problem of the business and 
whose executive force enables him to carry forward to successful 
completion whatever he undertakes. He is splendidly qualified 
for the duties which devolve upon him in his present position 
and his labors are constituting a tangible element in Tulsa's 
improvement in the way of home building. Mr. Reed is a native 
of Tennessee, his birth having occurred on a farm in Overton 
county, June 1, 1884. His father, George Gideon Reed, was also 
born in Tennessee and is now living retired at Overton. He is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church and belongs to the 
Masonic fraternity. In early manhood he wedded Elizabeth Peek, 
a native of Tennessee, who passed away at the age of thirty-four 
years. Of the six children of this marriage four are living.
 
   In his youthful days Joseph M. Reed was a pupil in the Pleasant 
Hill school of Cumberland county and thus qualified for life's 
practical and responsible duties until he reached the age of 
seventeen years, when he became a resident of Guthrie, Oklahoma, 
and completed his education there with a high school course. He 
afterward became a resident of Oklahoma City and entered into 
active connection with the Home Building & Loan Association as 
secretary, a position which he has occupied for eight years. 
He came to Tulsa in April, 1919, and through the intervening 
period has been secretary at this place. He is connected with 
some of the most progressive and reliable business men of Tulsa 
and the state and is engaged in promoting a business of great 
value to the city. Through the Building & Loan Association many 
homes have been erected and loans placed and the successful 
management of the business during the past two years has been 
attributable in no small measure to the efforts of Mr. Reed.
 
   In April, 1905, was celebrated the marriage of Joseph Marshall 
Reed and Miss Jennie Litherland of Mount Carmel, Illinois, a 
daughter of Abner Lither-land. They have become parents of three 
children: Morton, thirteen years of age; Margaret Jean, aged five; 
and Byrnie Marcelle, who is in her first year. Mr. Reed belongs 
to the Kiwanis Club, is the secretary of the City Club and a member 
of the Advertising Club. Fraternally he is a Mason and religiously 
a Presbyterian. He takes a most active and helpful part in the work 
of the church and Sunday school and does all in his power to further 
the moral progress and advancement of the community. His ideals of 
life are high and he strives eagerly to attain them. Men who know 
him—and he has a wide acquaintance—speak of him in terms of the 
highest regard, knowing that he is a man to be relied upon under 
every condition and that his word is as good as any bond solemnized 
by signature or seal.