George Murray Reed and Mrs. Emily H. Scott

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Husband George Murray Reed ^{1 2}

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           Born: 12 Feb 1828 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Aug 1908 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: James Reed (1793-1878) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Jane Ann Alison (1799-1879) 2

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       Marriage: 6 Dec 1877 2

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   Other Spouse: Sarah Ann Templeton (1830-1873) 2 - 4 May 1854 - Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA 2

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Wife Mrs. Emily H. Scott ²

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           Born: 1833 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 27 Apr 1888 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - George Murray Reed

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Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA - a jeweler

He was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. He attended school there and also learned the preliminary parts of the jewelry business. In 1849 he went with his father to Pittsburgh, where for about two years he worked as a journeyman with his father and brother James, after which, or about 1851, he was taken into the business as a member of the firm of James R. Reed & Co., Jewelers. He continued to be an active partner in the business for the rest of his life, and, up until about eight months before his death, he went faithfully and regularly to his business. His eyesight failing him in 1883, he went first to New York to consult specialists in the hope of improving it, and again in 1886, but their efforts were in vain and he became totally blind in 1889. Notwithstanding this affliction, he was able to retain his bright, cheery personality. He mastered the art of reading the books prepared for the blind and on one occasion he remarked to a relative, "When I cannot sleep I just reach out and get my book and read awhile and I don't have to make a light to do so either." In very early life he united with the Associated Presbyterian Church, which later became a part of the United Presbyterian Church. For 35 years he was Treasurer of the Board of Home Missions. As treasurer he continued to sign the cheeks, even after his sight failed, for this purpose he had a form made in metal with openings to guide him where the spaces to be filled in were. He also devised a tablet with grooves and a wire for guiding his hand in writing and by this means he could write letters. He was kept in touch with all that was going on in the business and social world, for his children and grandchildren read to him what he could not read himself and his friends loved to go into his office to chat with and tell him things they thought would interest him. For forty-one years he was an Elder in the Third U. P. Church and most of that time active in Church and Sabbath school work until his blindness interfered with some of it.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 700.

2 Ella Campbell Slagle Nichols, Family Record (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately published, 1914).

3 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 699.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 885, 1015.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1199.