Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 906.
 
GEORGE REED

     a carpenter and cabinet-maker of Paisley, is one of the leading men of this
part of the county and is doing a fine business. He has a large shop, well
fitted and supplied with everything necessary to do first-class work in the
lines mentioned. He has a gasoline engine which operates circular, groove,
rabbit, scroll, and other saws and planes, while also he has a first, class
lathe. Mr. Reed is a mechanic of no small ability and is able to do first class
building and also other lines of carpenter work. He has been especially
successful in this line and is a very valuable man for the county as there is
much to do still in building up and improving this fertile section.
     George Reed was born on December 15, 1839, near Fredericton, New Brunswick.
His father, Joseph Reed, was a native of the same place and his father, Benjamin
Reed, the grandfather of our subject, was born in New York and was a sea
captain. The mother of our subject was Abagail (Jewett) Reed, born in the same
place as her husband, and her father, Daniel Jewett, a native of the same place
as his daughter, was a miller. Our subject's parents both died in New Brunswick.
They had a family of fourteen children, twelve of whom lived to be grown and
nine of whom are now living. After securing a good education, George was
apprenticed to a first-class carpenter and served four years in that capacity,
during the latter portion of which he received twelve and one-half cents per day
as compensation. In 1865, he went to Concord, Massachusetts, where he worked at
his trade for a year and one-half. Then he returned to New Brunswick and in
1867, married Annie E. Mitcriell, a native of New Brunswick.  It was with her
father, James Mitchell, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, that our subject learned
his trade. Mrs. Reed's mother was Fanny (Heustis) Mitchell, also a native of New
Brunswick. Following his marriage, Mr. Reed returned to Concord, Massachusetts,
and worked for the same firm he had been with before.  For the last two years,
he was foreman in their carpenter shop. Following this service, he went to South
Dakota and dwelt just across the line from Iowa. He wrought in Akron, Iowa,
erecting the first hotel and various other buildings there. His son, Walter F.,
was the first white child born in that town and one of the streets was named for
Mr. Reed. After three years in that section, Mr. Reed moved his family to San
Luis valley, Colorado, the date then being 1875. He assisted in the organization
of Gunnison county there in 1876 and was the first county commissioner. In 1878,
he moved to the head waters of the Tongue river in Wyoming and located a ranch
that is now part of the townsite of Sheridan. He was one of the veiy first
settlers in that vicinity and engaged in the stock business. There was a large
quantity of game of all kinds such as deer, elk, buffalo, antelope, and so
forth, and Mr. Reed greatly enjoyed hunting. So sparsely settled was the country
that whenever one discerned a moving object, he could be reasonably sure that it
was a wild animal or an Indian.  In tire fall of l880, Mr. Reed removed with his
family to Ashland, Oregon, and in the spring of 1888, he came to the Goose Lake
valley. After that, he returned to Eugene, Oregon, and the fall of 1890, he came
to the Chewaucan valley and there was engaged in the stock business with his
sons. After they were married, he sold out and came to Paisley where he opened a
shop that he now is operating. In addition to doing general building, he makes a
specialty of the manufacture of furniture, which finds a ready sale through the
country. He has a good residence and some other property and is a member of the
I. 0. 0. F. For two years, Mr. Reed served as deputy sheriff of this county and
was a capable and efficient officer. Tlie children born to Mr. and Mrs. Reed are
Herbert E., in New Brunswick and now a stockman near Paisley; Walter F., born in
Akron, Iowa, and now living at Bly; and Maude E., born in Colorado and now the
wife of John McCormack, of California.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.