Husband James Madison Reid 1
Born: 10 Apr 1849 2
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Father: James Dunlap Reid ( - ) 1 3
Mother: Mary Henry ( - ) 1 3
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General Notes: Husband - James Madison Reid
He was raised in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the common schools only, till about fourteen years of age, when he entered the Allegheny Institute, and continued there about two years, and then became a clerk in a general store, where he was occupied for about a year. After this he removed to Broad Ford, Fayette County, and was engaged as a clerk with his brother, E. H. Reid, for about four years, and from that place went into the business of merchandising in partnership with others at Dunbar. He continued partnership merchandising, with various changes in copartners, for about six years. Meanwhile Mr. Reid conducted, alone or with others, more or less other business, particularly the mining of coal and manufacture of coke on lands and in works belonging to himself and his copartners, but all of which he came to own. Aside from these coke-works and coal lands, Mr. Reid was largely interested in coal-fields, covering in the aggregate over six thousand acres, the major portion of or controlling interest in which he and his brother, E. H. Reid, own; and in February, 1882, he organized the Connellsville and Ursina Coal and Coke Company, with a capital of $400,000, of which company he was president. The chief purpose of this company was to develop the iron ore, coal, and limestone-beds on the lands he owned. He also held a large interest in the business of Boyts, Porter & Co., extensive brass and iron founders and machinists at Connellsville.
Mr. Reid was a Republican who took an active interest in politics, and was appointed a delegate for the representative district of Fayette County to the State Convention of 1881. He was also a member of the Republican State Central Committee, and won the congratulations of his party throughout the state for the efficient and judicious work done in his district since his occupany of a seat in the committee's councils.