BIO: Robert H. REED, Centre County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/centre/ http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/centre/1picts/commbios/comm-bios.htm _____________________________________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898. _____________________________________________________________________ ROBERT H. REED is one of the native sons of Centre county, his birth having occurred in Patton township, April 26, 1848. William Reed, father of our subject, was born in Ireland, in 1810, and married Rose Ann Hannah, also a native of the Emerald Isle. They were married in that country, and soon afterward came to America. The mother died in 1873, and was laid to rest in Gray's cemetery, Patton township; the father has now reached the advanced age of eighty-six years. They had seven children - five sons and two daughters: William H. carries on agricultural pursuits in Huntingdon county, Penn.; Jane is the widow of Christ Hartsock, who died leaving two children; Nicholas E., who in early life was a railroad engineer, and is now a wealthy citizen of Kansas, married Anna Hartsock, and has eight children; Catherine E. is the wife of J. J. Kline, a resident farmer of Huntingdon county, Penn.; David J., who married Amelia Irvin, by whom he had three children, is a wealthy farmer of Kansas, owning several hundred acres of land (during the Civil war he was a faithful Union soldier, and was wounded while fighting for his country); Robert H. is the sixth in order of birth; and John E. is a farmer of Huntingdon county, and has had a family of five children, three of whom are living. Robert H. Reed has spent his entire life in Patton township, Centre county, with the exception of two years passed in Stormstown. He acquired his education in the Waddle school, and is a well-informed man whose practical knowledge and business experience have enabled him to secure a comfortable competence. His life has been one of earnest industry, and he is now the owner of 135 acres of good land, situated about a mile from the Scotia mines. His farm is well improved with substantial buildings, and his land is richly cultivated. In his methods of farming he is progressive and enterprising, and 268 COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the success which he has achieved is richly merited. On February 22, 1877, Mr. Reed was married to Miss Mary C. Kelley, a daughter of Jeremiah Kelley, of Benner township Centre county. They have seven children - four sons and three daughters - and the family circle yet remains unbroken by the hand of death. Their names and dates of birth are as follows: William G. Clifford, August 19, 1878; Irvin G., May 5, 1880; Katrine, January 23, 1884; Anna M., September 16, 1885; Ethel J., August 26, 1890; John E., July 26, 1893; and Robert E., March 23, 1897. In his political adherency Mr. Reed is a Democrat. He is a man of sterling worth, genial and kindly in disposition, affable in manner, and possessing that true nobility of character which everywhere commands respect and confidence.