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. 896.
 
HERBERT E. REED

     is a well known farmer and stock raiser of Lake county and resides nine
miles south of Paisley.  His birth occurred on February 3, 1868, in the province
of New Brunswick, Canada.  His parents, Geroge and Annie E. (Mitchell) Reed, are
now living at Paisley, Oregon. Our subject came with his parents to Boston,
Massachusetts, when a child and also resided in various parts of the east. Then
they crossed the plains with ox teams from Iowa to Saguache county, Colorado, in
1874. Five years later, they removed to Wyoming and from that, point journeyed
to Ashland, Oregon, in 1886. It was 1889, when they came to this county and our
subject soon filed on a preemption in the Goose Lake valley. Then he herded
sheep and shortly afterwards in company with his father and brother, Walter F.,
engaged in the sheep business. Later, he and his father purchased a ranch which
our subject now owns, being known as the Avery ranch, and it is one of the first
locations in the Chewaucan valley. His house was the first lumber residence in
this part of the country. In 1897, our subect bought his father's interest and
since has added by purchase until the estate is six hundred and eighty acres,
about one-fourth of which is very valuable agricultural land and the balance is
pasture. Mr. Reed makes a specialty of raising hay, some alfalfa and handles
cattle and horses. He has a good residence, plenty of barns, out buildings and
other improvements and is a prosperous man.
     On November 17, 1895, Mr. Reed married Lucy J. Bryan, who was born in
Yamhill county, Oregon. Her parents, Daniel Boone and Mary (Fairley) Bryan, are
living in this county. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Reed are Rex E., Lester
H., Lee R, and Ivan W.


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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.