Dr. Robert Rentoul Reed and Ellen B. Baird
Husband Dr. Robert Rentoul Reed 1 2
Born: 12 Mar 1807 3 Christened: Died: 14 Dec 1864 3 Buried:
Father: Rev. Alexander Reed (1776-1842) 1 3 Mother: Janet McFarquhar ( -1818) 3
Marriage: 1830 1 3
Wife Ellen B. Baird 4 5
AKA: Eleanor Baird 3 Born: Christened: Died: 25 Jun 1892 3 Buried:
Father: Hon. Thomas Harlan Baird (1787-1866) 6 7 Mother: Nancy McCullough ( -Bef 1882) 5 8
Children
1 F Ann Eliza Reed 1 3
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1882 Buried:
2 M Rev. Alexander Reed 1 9 10 11
Born: 28 Sep 1832 - near Washington, Washington Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 18 Nov 1878 - ? Denver, CO 3 Buried:Spouse: Mary Baynton Watson ( -Aft 1910) 1 10 11 12
3 M Thomas Baird Reed 1 3
Born: 23 Oct 1834 3 Christened: Died: 1 Apr 1891 3 Buried:Spouse: Mary G. Campbell ( - ) 3
4 F Janet Reed 3
AKA: Janette Reed 1 Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1882 Buried:
5 M George W. Reed 1 3 13
Born: 1839 13 Christened: Died: Aft 1893 Buried:Spouse: Matilda Bowman McKennan ( - ) 1 3 13
6 F Eleanor Reed 3
AKA: Ellen Reed 1 Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1882 Buried:
7 F Isabella Reed 1
AKA: Isabel Reed 3 Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1882 Buried:
8 M Robert Reed 3
Born: Christened: Died: 16 Jul 1863 - Georgetown, D. C. 14 Cause of Death: Typhoid fever Buried:
9 M Colin Reed 1 3
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1893 Buried:Spouse: Lida Lord ( -1885) 14 Marr: 1874 14Spouse: Louisa Lord ( - ) 14 Marr: Aft 1885
10 M William B. Reed 1 3
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1893 Buried:Spouse: Mary McKnight ( -1889) 14 Marr: 1875 14
11 M Joseph Reed 1 3
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1893 Buried:
12 M Charles Reed 1 3
Born: Christened: Died: in infancy Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - Dr. Robert Rentoul Reed
He graduated at Washington College in 1824, studied medicine with Dr. LeMoyne, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Phila-delphia. In 1848 he was nominated for Congress in the district then composed of Washington and Beaver, and represented the district in 1849 and 1850. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1863 and 1864. For a number of years he acted as vice-president and afterward as agent of the Pennsylvania Coloniza-tion Society, in which philanthropic enterprise he rendered most efficient service. For thirty-six years he was a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church, and during seventeen of these years he was a ruling elder, and for twenty-six years was superintendent of the Sabbath-school.
1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 481.
2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 153, 190.
3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 190.
4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 245.
5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 153.
6 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 542.
7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 152.
8 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 480, 542.
9 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 190, 221.
10 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 751.
11 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 476.
12 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 221.
13 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1644.
14
Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 191.
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