Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Reeder, William, D.D.S.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   WILLIAM REEDER, D. D. S. southwest corner of Sixth and 
Green streets, Philadelphia, was born in Solebury township, 
April 14, 1857, and is a son of Merrick and Rachel A. 
(Trego) Reeder.  The ancestry of the family is given in 
detail, under name of Eastburn Reeder, above.  David K., 
second son of Merrick, Jr., and Elizabeth (Eastburn) Reeder, 
was born in Solebury township, October 29, 1804, and married 
Elizabeth Reeder, daughter of Charles and Jane (Atkinson) 
Reeder, of Lower Makefield township.  He had two children, 
Merrick and Sarah J.   The former was born in Philadelphia 
September 19, 1828, and in 1856, married Rachel A., daughter 
of Charles T. and Anna (Smith) Trego, of Wrightstown, Bucks 
county.  Charles T. Trego was a son of WilliamTrego, born in 
1774, and a grandson of William Trego, born in 1744.  The 
latter was a son of John Trego, born in 1711, John, a son of 
Jacob Trego, born in 1687, and Jacob, a son of Peter Trego, 
who was born in 1655, and settled in Bucks county in 1682.  
Merrick and Rachel Reeder were the parents of two children, 
William and Mary. William Reeder was reared in Solebury 
township, and educated in the public schools, and at the 
Lambertville (N. J.) seminary.  He began the study of 
dentistry in 1879, at the Pennsylvania Dental college at 
Philadelphia, and was graduated in 1881, from which date 
until 1885 he was demonstrator of operative dentistry in the 
same college.  He also began the practice of his profession 
in 1881, in Philadelphia, where he has built up an extensive 
and successful practice.  April 28, 1886, he married 
Florence, daughter of Linford and Anna M. (Reeder) Lukens, 
of Philadelphia.  Dr. Reeder is a member of the Pennsylvania 
Association of Dental Surgeons, of the Odontological Society 
of Pennsylvania, and a member of the board of managers of 
the Philadelphia Lying-in-Charity and Nurse school.