OBIT: Joseph A. REED, 1919, native of Bedford County, PA

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Bedford Gazette 1/02/1920
Joseph A. Reed    

WELL KNOWN ATTORNEY OF PHILADELPHIA DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS.

Joseph. A. Reed, a well known attorney of Philadelphia and a native of this 
County, died on December 22nd at his home, 320 Gowen Ave., Mt. Airy, after an 
illness lasting several years.  Funeral services were held at his late residence 
on Friday afternoon, December 26th, at 3 o'clock and were conducted by Rev. 
James Crawford, D. D., Pastor Emeritus, and Rev. Eugene L. McLean, Pastor of 
Christ Reformed church, Philadelphia.  Interment was made in Ivy Hill Cemetery, 
Germantown.  Mr. Reed was a son of the late John P. Reed of Bedford, and was 
always a steadfast Democrat in politics having inherited the party's principles 
from his father, who was a leader of that party for many years in Bedford 
County.  In earlier years, he was active in Democratic politics in Philadelphia 
and on several occasions ran for office, always polling a heavier vote than the 
rest of the Democratic ticket on which he was slated.  He was born in 
Schellsburg, this County, on July 9th, 1847 and received his early education in 
the schools of Bedford and at Mercersburg, afterward graduating from Franklin 
and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.  He studied law at Columbia Law School, New 
York and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1873.  In 1877, he removed to 
Philadelphia and was admitted to practice before the Philadelphia and 
Pennsylvania Courts, where he continued the active practice of his profession 
until 1916, when illness compelled him to abandon it.  Mr. Reed attended Christ 
Reformed Church, Philadelphia, where for forty years he was a member of the 
Consistory of that church.  He was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the 
Sons of the Revolution and of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association.  In 1873, 
he married Miss Leila J. Wentz, of Lancaster, who survives him. He is also 
survived by three daughters: Lelia, Josephine, and Lucinda W., and a son, 
Clarence H. Reed.  Paul Reed, of Bedford and George W. Reed of Media, Pa., are 
surviving brothers.

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