. The Daily union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and County . REED FAHILY. Dr. Lewis Reed. Atlantic Citys first iiliy>ician, move! here Milvillc in 1857. Hewas the oldest son of a family of twelve children. His father. David Reed, was one of ,awell-known South Jersey family. He was a tailor by trade and a hotel keeper by occupa-tion. He died before he was fifty and his widow, Lodemia Reed, married a man of thename of Barnes. The children, three of whom are still living, were Lew-is. David. , C
. The Daily union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and County . REED FAHILY. Dr. Lewis Reed. Atlantic Citys first iiliy>ician, move! here Milvillc in 1857. Hewas the oldest son of a family of twelve children. His father. David Reed, was one of ,awell-known South Jersey family. He was a tailor by trade and a hotel keeper by occupa-tion. He died before he was fifty and his widow, Lodemia Reed, married a man of thename of Barnes. The children, three of whom are still living, were Lew-is. David. , Charles, William. Joseph. James. Thomas S. Henry. Eliza Miller, and two young. Lewis, born November 10. 1806. married Susanna Stanger. a woman of German parent-age, born in 1810. For some years he followed the trade of his father, that of a tailor. laterstudying medicine and giving his profession his exclusive attention. They had a family ofnine children, all born in Millville. where one of them. Francis Lee. still lives. They were:2. Caroline Dufi^y. b. 1828; ?,. Francis b. i8,io; 4- Edward Stone, b. iS,?.?: 5. Lewi-, DR. LEWIS REED. HEED FAMILY -l-JS 1836; 6. Thomas Keniblc. b. ; Goorge. b. 1842; 8, Joseph Ga>kill, 1). iS.((i: 9, Mary II . : and 10, Ella, b. 1853; d. 1S64. By the mere incident, while gunning in the woods about Wcynimuh. of connecting witha train to Atlantic City, he made his first visit to this resort \vIkii iIk- population was toosmall to support a physician with a large family. But arrangcmciits were made by peoplewhom he met whereby $500 a year was guaranteed so that he mu\ed here ti> live iierma-nently in 1857. He was elected Mayor the four years following. His son Edward, who had just mar-ried, came with him and soon opened the first drug store, and his son Thomas came a fewyears later to be the second physician on theisland. For eleven years Dr. Reed was Post-master, and always a genial, public spirited citizen who live
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