. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . and a well-knowncontributor to itsliterature. He wasborn in Boston, , 1834, and is theson of Sampson andCatharine (Clark)Reed. His father,who was for manyyears a member ofthe city governmentand took an activeand leading part inthe municipal affairsof Boston, was theson of Rev. Reed, who fora long time was set-tled over the oldfirst parish in Bridge-water (now WestBridgewater). Reeds fatherwas also a Congre-gationalist clergy-man, so th
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . and a well-knowncontributor to itsliterature. He wasborn in Boston, , 1834, and is theson of Sampson andCatharine (Clark)Reed. His father,who was for manyyears a member ofthe city governmentand took an activeand leading part inthe municipal affairsof Boston, was theson of Rev. Reed, who fora long time was set-tled over the oldfirst parish in Bridge-water (now WestBridgewater). Reeds fatherwas also a Congre-gationalist clergy-man, so that comes ofa ministerial fam-ily. He receivedhis early education in private schools, and was fitted for college in theBoston Latin School. Entering Harvard in 1851, hegraduated in 1855, among his classmates being PhillipsBrooks, Robert Treat Paine, and Alexander .\ graduation he taught for one year in the BostonLatin School, and then studied for the ministry underthe guidance of Rev. Dr. Thomas Worcester, pastor ofthe church of which Mr. Reeds father had always beenan active member. After two years study, he was. JAMES REED called to the assistant pastorate of the fJoston Societyof the New Jerusalem, and was ordained to the min-istry in April, i860. He continued as assistant to until the latters resignation in January, 1868,when he became pastor of the church and has remainedthere ever since. In addition to his pastoral duties,Mr. Reed has contributed much to New Church litera-ture, and has published Religion and Life (NewYork, i869),j^Man and Woman (Boston, 1870), and Swedenborg andthe New Church(Boston, 1880).He was for sometime an editor ofthe New JerusalemMagazine. Fro m1871 till 1875 sersed on theBoston School Com-mittee, and one yearhe drew up theannual report of theBoard. He wasmarried, Dec. 19,1858, to Miss EmilyE. Ripley, of Brook-line. They havefive children living,the eldest son beingin business in Bos-ton. The joint cel-ebra
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