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Subject: DUDLEY S. REID (BENJAMIN, JOHN) b1824 NY TO MI 1834 bio.
Date: 6 Jun 2004 09:25:09 -0600

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Surnames: REID, SHAW, HALLOCK, BECKWITH, ALEXANDER, COFFLIN, WILSON
Classification: Query

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Hello,
These are not my relatives, but I thought someone might like to have the history for their records. It came from the:
"1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros", in Michigan.
Hope it helps someone.
Colleen

Dudley S. Reid, of Mundy Township, Genesee County, is a son of Benjamin D. Reid, who was born in New York, and grandson of John Reid, a Scotchman. Ellis Shaw, who became the wife of Benjamin D. Reid and the mother of our subject, was born in New York.

Our subject is the ninth in a family of eleven children and was born in Rush, Monroe County, N. Y., August 15, 1824. At the age of ten years he came with his parents to Genesee County, Mich., and soon after their arrival here the parents died, leaving the orphaned children in Grand Blanc Township, this county. Here Dudley grew to manhood and early, found employment among neighbors in Grand Blanc and Mundy Townships. He has devoted himself mostly to farming although he was for two years when a young man engaged in shoemaking.

Mr. Reid was married in Grand Blanc Township in 1848, to Julia A. Hallock, a Vermonter by birth. For four years they lived in Grand Blanc Township and then settled on a farm which is now the family home in Mundy Township. They had six children: Frank S., a farmer; Kittie, the wife of John Beckwith; John F., a merchant in South Dakota; Fred A.; Grant V., a merchant at Sioux City, Iowa; and Jennie, now Mrs. Philip Alexander. Mrs. Julia A. Reid died in Mundy Township, in November, 1864.

The second marriage of our subject took place in Lowell, Kent County, Mich., March 11, 1866, his bride being Mrs. Martha (Cofflin) Wilson, daughter of Michael and Martha (Freeman) Cofflin and widow of Joseph Wilson, who died in Lowell, Mich., in July, 1864. Six children were born of this marriage, namely: Merritt, Martha J., Carlos, Ardella, Horace and Ella.

Mr. Reid in his political views is attached to the doctrines and policy of the Republican party. Mrs. Reid is an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist Church. Upon this farm our subject has erected a first-class set of farm buildings and the estate comprises one hundred and twenty broad and fertile acres. He is a public-spirited man and one who has the welfare of his township at heart. The influence exerted by this valued family is ever in the direction of forwarding the welfare of the community and the prosperity, both social and material, of the people of the township

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