Newton B. Reed Biography


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NEWTON B. REED has been a resident of South Dakota since 1882, and an 
active participant in the advancement of his adopted state and the 
county of Sanborn, wherein he makes his home. On the creation of the 
state in 1889 he was appointed by the Circuit Court of the United 
States one of the three masters in chancery of the state; has held the 
position of county judge of Sanborn county, and is at the present time 
a prominent lawyer of Woonsocket, and the able and efficient editor of 
the "Woonsocket Times." The paper is the leading Republican newspaper 
of this section of the state and enjoys a good circulation through this 
and the neighboring counties. The "Times" was established in 1882 by C. 
E. Havens, at Milwaukee Junction, a village which has since 
disappeared. The newspaper and the houses comprising the town were 
literally removed to Woonsocket in 1883, when the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Railway came through Sanborn county. 

Mr. Reed is a native of Ogle county, Illinois, son of Franklin S. and 
Fanny (Hicks) Reed. He was born November 2, 1848, and in boyhood 
attended the county schools and worked on his father's farm. 
Subsequently attended the high school department of the State 
University at Normal, Illinois. After his graduation there in 1872 he 
taught school for a time, and then attended the law school department 
of the Wesleyan University at Bloomington, the same state, securing his 
degree in 1875 and was admitted to the bar the same year, after which 
he practiced his profession there until 1882, when he came to Sanborn 
county, South Dakota. He was married June 28, 1877, to Mary Alice 
Stroud, at Belvidere, Illinois. 

Mr. Reed has continuously practiced his profession with most successful 
results since coming to South Dakota. In 1883 he was appointed to the 
office of county judge, a position he held for one and a half years, 
and then resigned. 

Mr. Reed has been identified with the early history of the county, and 
was one of the original town site proprietors of Woonsocket, Sanborn 
county was originally a part of Miner county. A mass meeting was held 
at Letcher early in 1883 to ask for a division of the county by making 
a new county out of its west half. Mr. Reed offered a resolution to 
name the county "Sanborn." He was appointed to proceed to Yankton to 
secure passage of a bill for the organization and naming of the same, 
which he successfully accomplished. 

He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge, No. 67, of Woonsocket. Mr. and 
Mrs. Reed are the parents of four children, now living, viz.: Charles, 
Amy C., Clara L. and Marian.