Rev. Robert Reid and Elizabeth Calhoun

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Husband Rev. Robert Reid ¹

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           Born: 5 Nov 1781 - near Belfast, Ireland 2
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           Died: 16 May 1844 - Erie, Erie Co, PA 2
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       Marriage: 1816 2

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Lind (      -      ) 2 - 1828 2

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Wife Elizabeth Calhoun ²

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           Died: Bef 1828
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Robert Reid

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He was the first resident minister in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, his home from 1811 to 1844. He was pastor of the Associate Reformed Church, the first regularly organized in Erie, and for years its strongest religious organization. He labored with untiring zeal for a third of a century in laying deep and broad the foundations of Evangelical religion on the wilderness shores of Lake Erie; seeking to transplant the faith and tenets he had imbibed on the hills of Ireland from his ancestors, who, before that, came with their Bibles and their plighted faith from "the solemn league and covenant" in the mountains of Scotland.

He was born at Reid's Hill borough, near Belfast, Ireland. He came with his father's family to Philadelphia in 1798. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1801, and graduated in 1805, and later from the Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Church at New York. He was licensed to preach in 1809. He traveled over much wild country, preaching in many neighborhoods, sometimes with a sermon each day in the week. He came to Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1811, and, in 1812, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, then the only organized religious association in Erie. Afterwards a church of kindred faith was organized in Waterford, to which he ministered for years a part of the time. He officiated as chaplain to Perry's squadron, and to the land forces at Erie in time of war. At the incorporation of the academy, in 1819, he was elected president and so continued for twenty-five years, until his death. For some time he was principal of the academy, and for years afterwards aided as a special teacher.

1 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Erie, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1896), Pg 574.

2 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Erie, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1896), Pg 575.