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. 1012.
 
WALTER F. REED

     is the proprietor, of the Pioneer hotel, and is postmaster at Bly, Oregon.
He is a native of Plymouth county, Iowa, born September 2, 1871. His father,
George Reed, now a cabinet maker at Paisley, Oregon, was born in the province of
New Brunswick and came to Massachusetts in 1865. Five years later he went to
Iowa and from Iowa to Colorado in 1872. From the latter state he went to Wyoming
and in 1887 he came to Oregon and settled in Ashland. Two years later he came to
Lake county, where he has since lived. Mr. Reed's mother is Anna E. (Mitchell)
Reed, a native of New Brunswick. The family is composed of the father, mother
and three children, of which our subject is the second in point of age. He has a
brother, Herbert E., residing near Paisley, and a sister, Mrs. Maud E.
McCormack, who lives in California.
     Mr. Reed grew to manhood on his parents' stock farm. The family was the
second that lived in what is now Sheridan county, Wyoming, where they remained
eight years. Sheridan county as at that time included in Johnson county. The
Reed home was situated only about forty miles from the scene of the historic
Custer massacre.  The family experienced no trouble with the Indians while in
Wyoming, but while living in Colorado the savages were on the warpath and made
life for the settlers decidedly disagreeable. Large game, such as deer, elk,
antelope and buffalo, as plentiful at that time, and Mr. Reed can recall the
times when he has watched his father stand in his door and shoot the later named
animals with his rifle.
     Our subject attended school at Ashland, Oregon, and at the age of twenty he
engaged in the sheep business with his father and brother. They also farmed to
some extent and did a great amount of contract work, during harvest time,
harvesting hay. Mr. Reed was always successful in what he undertook and as a
result is now in well-to-do circumstances.  He owns near Paisley one hundred and
sixty acres of land, the farm where he resides consists of a quarter section of
well improved land and may be irrigated by a ditch, in which he is heavily
interested. He purchased this in 1903. The farm is known as the Bly ranch. In
Bly, Mr. Reed owns the Pioneer hotel, as has been stated, containing seventy
rooms, and he is also the proprietor of a large livery and feed stable, and
keeps the stage station for the Klamath Falls & Lakeview stage company.
     On September 25, 1892, Mr. Reed was married to Mattie B. Mulkey, a native
of Missouri and daughter of Willis J. and Mary E. Mulkey.  Mr. and Mrs. Mulkey
came to Oregon eighteen years ago and are now engaged in running a hotel in
Eugene, Oregon.
     To Mr. and Mrs. Reed have been born five children, Archie M., Helen M.,
Bennie A., Richard W., and Violet B.
     In addition to the property already enumerated, Mr. Reed owns the town hall
of Bly, a building twenty-six by sixty feet in dimensions, known as Reed's Hall.
This hall is used for public entertainments and social gatherings.


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