Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Dr. Robert Rentoul Reed and Ellen B. Baird




Husband Dr. Robert Rentoul Reed 1 2

           Born: 12 Mar 1807 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Dec 1864 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Rev. Alexander Reed (1776-1842) 1 3
         Mother: Janet McFarquhar (      -1818) 3


       Marriage: 1830 1 3



Wife Ellen B. Baird 4 5

            AKA: Eleanor Baird 3
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Jun 1892 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Hon. Thomas Harlan Baird (1787-1866) 6 7
         Mother: Nancy McCullough (      -Bef 1882) 5 8




Children
1 F Ann Eliza Reed 1 3

           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1882
         Buried: 



2 M Rev. Alexander Reed 1 9 10 11

           Born: 28 Sep 1832 - near Washington, Washington Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Nov 1878 - ? Denver, CO 3
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Mary Baynton Watson (      -Aft 1910) 1 10 11 12


3 M Thomas Baird Reed 1 3

           Born: 23 Oct 1834 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Apr 1891 3
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Mary G. Campbell (      -      ) 3


4 F Janet Reed 3

            AKA: Janette Reed 1
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1882
         Buried: 



5 M George W. Reed 1 3 13

           Born: 1839 13
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1893
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Matilda Bowman McKennan (      -      ) 1 3 13


6 F Eleanor Reed 3

            AKA: Ellen Reed 1
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1882
         Buried: 



7 F Isabella Reed 1

            AKA: Isabel Reed 3
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1882
         Buried: 



8 M Robert Reed 3

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Jul 1863 - Georgetown, D. C. 14
 Cause of Death: Typhoid fever
         Buried: 



9 M Colin Reed 1 3

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1893
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Lida Lord (      -1885) 14
           Marr: 1874 14
         Spouse: Louisa Lord (      -      ) 14
           Marr: Aft 1885


10 M William B. Reed 1 3

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1893
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Mary McKnight (      -1889) 14
           Marr: 1875 14


11 M Joseph Reed 1 3

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1893
         Buried: 



12 M Charles Reed 1 3

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry



General Notes: Husband - Dr. Robert Rentoul Reed


He graduated at Washington College in 1824, studied medicine with Dr. LeMoyne, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Phila-delphia. In 1848 he was nominated for Congress in the district then composed of Washington and Beaver, and represented the district in 1849 and 1850. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1863 and 1864. For a number of years he acted as vice-president and afterward as agent of the Pennsylvania Coloniza-tion Society, in which philanthropic enterprise he rendered most efficient service. For thirty-six years he was a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church, and during seventeen of these years he was a ruling elder, and for twenty-six years was superintendent of the Sabbath-school.

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Sources


1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 481.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 153, 190.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 190.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 245.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 153.

6 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 542.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 152.

8 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 480, 542.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 190, 221.

10 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 751.

11 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 476.

12 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 221.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1644.

14 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 191.


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