BIO: NATHAN F. REED, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 382-383
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    NATHAN F. REED, one of the well-known citizens of Lower Allen township,
  Cumberland county, who since 1889 has been engaged in business at New
  Cumberland, is one of the successful self-made men of his locality.
    
    CUMBERLAND COUNTY	383
  
   Mr. Reed was born Dec. 6, 1858, in Fairview township, York county, and
  attended school until the age of seventeen, working on his father's farm
  during vacation. At the age of twenty-one he left home and came to New
  Cumberland, and was employed for nine years at the Pennsylvania Steel Works.
  In 1889 he embarked in a coal business in this place, and later added
  fertilizers, cement, tiling and sewer pipe. The business so established, by
  his energy and enterprise, has been continued until the present, and is now
  one of the leading concerns of the place.
    
    James L. Reed, the father of Nathan F., was born in New Jersey, learned the
  shoe trade, and later came to York county, Pa. He married Margaret Parker, of
  York, York county, and after marriage located in Fairview township, where he
  engaged in farming until his death, in 1890, at the age of seventy-two years.
  His widow still survives, aged eighty years. In religious connection they
  belong to the United Brethren Church. In politics he was a Republican. The
  children of James L. Reed and his wife were: Emily Jane, who is Mrs. Henry
  Handshaw, of Dauphin county; Eliza, Mrs. John Holmes, of Harrisburg; Mary,
  Mrs. Abraham Simmers, of Harrisburg; Jane, deceased; Albert, a resident of
  Michigan; Nathan F., of this sketch; Leah, Mrs. John Walker, of Harrisburg,
  deceased; and William, who married Ella Bowen, a resident of York county. The
  maternal grandfather of this family, was a patriot soldier in 1776.
    
    Nathan F. Reed was married at New Cumberland, to Elizabeth Smaling,
  daughter of Henry and Anne (Peters) Smaling, both of whom are deceased. Both
  Mr. and Mrs. Reed are valued members of the U. B. Church, in which he is a
  trustee. In politics he is identified with the Republican party, and he is
  now serving his second year as amember of the borough council. In 1900 he
  erected a beautiful home in this city, and he and wife are very hospitable
  entertainers.