BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.

Pages 728-729.
 
B. P. REED, a member of the firm of Reed & Albrecht, tanners, and also a member
of the firm of Howard & Reed, buyers and shippers of leaf tobacco, is a native
of Barnsville, Ohio, where he now lives, having been born there December 18,
1846. His parents were William and Eliza (Grafton) Reed, both born in Beaver
county, Penn. They came to Barnesville, in 1845, and the father engaged in
the manufactory of boots and shoes, and he also established the Enterprise
tannery, operating the same for twenty years, buying and selling leaf tobacco
in connection with his other business. He was a member of the republican party,
and was councliman for several years. Mr. Reed was an influential member of the
Methodist Episcopal church at the time of his death, which occurred in February,
1887; his wife having passed away in 1875. Five children survive them: Emmeline,
wife of H. W. Baker, of Barnesville; J. W., a leading doctor of Monroe county;
William M., residing at Xenia, Ohio; M. G., living in Barnesville, and B. P.
The latter obtained his schooling from the Barnesville public schools, and
afterward learned his father's trade, which he followed for twenty-five years.
In 1887 he began to sell leaf tobacco, and now attends to each branch of his
business with the most gratifying success. Emma L. Kugler became his wife in
1870; she is a daughter of Charles Kugler. This marriage has been blessed by
the birth of three children: Charles Wesley, Laura May, and an infant. Mr. Reed
is an active republican, and has filled the office of town treasurer three
terms, and was a member of the council for one term, besides which he is a member
of Barnesville lodge, No. 185, I. O. O. F., also encampment, and an honored
communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a parsonage
trustee. He is a large stockholder in the Warren Gas company, and also in the
People's National bank.