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BEAVER FALLS PAPERS. 119 Agency; was reporter and night editor and did con- siderable special work for Pittsburg "Dispatch." and Bos- ton "Post." He turned to teaching in 1898 and taught Greensburg Seminary, Greensburg, Pa.; St. Joseph Academy, Greensburg, Pa.; Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pa. ; at present has chair of mathe- matics in Geneva College. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and of the Archaeological Institute of America. Col. William H. Eeed was born in Beaver county. Pa., December 12, 1843, son of Thomas Eeed and Frances Irwin Reed, the latter a sister of the late General W. W. Irwin, for two terms State Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Reed enlisted in Company A., I7th Pennsylvania Cavalry September 6, 1862, and was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps September 30, 1863, on account of wounds. After the war he located at Chicago, where he became prominent in politics, became a fast friend of Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Logan. Under the Arthur Administration he was appointed a special agent of the Pension department, until President Cleve- land's administration, living at the time in Pittsburg. He came to Beaver county and entered upon newspaper work for some time, thence removing to Pittsburg, where he was a member of the Americus Club, Alexander Hays Post No. 3, G. A. R., the Union Veteran Legion, the Press Club and Tariff Club, and was a Master Mason. He was married January 27, 1870, to Lillian A. Morton, and had five children, of whom Alice May of Beaver, William A. and Robert L. of Chicago, and Stanley Q. of Warren, O., are yet living. He died Friday June 26, 1896, and is buried in Beaver cemetery. Albert Henry Beitch, son of G. F. and Catherine Beitch, was bom in New Brighton April 12 ,1874. He attended the public schools and later McMahon's Busi- ness College. He worked in the Dithridge glass