Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Reed, William E. 1834 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    WILLIAM E. REED, dealer in watches, jewelry and fancy goods; born March 24,
1834, in Oswego, N. Y.; went to Cincinnati, Ohio, in the spring of 1846, where
he learned his business; went to New Orleans about 1850; to California in 1851,
where he worked in the gold-diggings, sometimes getting out from four to five
and one-half pounds of the precious metal per day for months at a time; his
claim was located on the Durrigen Flat at Downeyville, on Yuba River; afterward
he had one at Yankee Jim's on the American River; he returned to Cincinnati in
1855, and came to Kenosha in November of that year, when he established himself
in business; was burnt out March 20, 1869, and then built the store he now
occupies; Mr. Reed keeps on hand the finest assortment of silverware in the
city, superintends a millinery department in the same store; they are agents for
the White sewing machines. He assisted in raising Co. G, 1st Wis. V. I., the
first to offer service to the Government from Wisconsin, and was Lieutenant of
the same, but was unable to go into the army on account of urgent business and
other private matters; he now holds a Captain's commission in that company; he
also served in the Provost Marshal's office during the war. Married Elizabeth A.
Bridgman, of Plymouth, England, July 2, 1861. He was Alderman of Kenosha for ten
years, consecutively; President of the Council for several years, acting for the
Mayor in his absence. Mr. Reed belongs to Lodge No. 47, Chapter No. 3, Masons;
Lodge No. 49, I. O. O. F., and to the Knights of Honor. Mrs. Reed is a member of
the Episcopal Church, which Mr R. attends.



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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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