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Pocahontas County >> 1904 Index The Pioneer History of Pocahontas County,
Iowa R Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton. REED, JOSEPH M. (b. 1842), Clinton, is a native of Pennsylvania and in 1860 came with his parents to Deleware county, Iowa, In 1861, he enlisted as a member of Co. B, 4th Iowa Cavalry, and continued in the service until the end of the war, four years. In 1895, he married Arminta Hayden, and in 1871, located on a homestead in Palo Alto county. In 1874, he located in Clinton township, Pocahontas county, where he improved a farm of 120 acres with neat and handsome buildings, and occupied it until 1900, when he moved to Laconner , Washington . His family consisted of three children. Amy L. in 1883, married F. F. Fitzgerald. Lena in 1891. married Charles A. Vaughn, a farmer. Ora married Miss Christianson, of Gilmore City . REED, SAMUEL SEIBERT , (b. June 29, 11848), banker, Rolfe, is a native of Franklin County, Pa. and in 1861 moved with his parents to a farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In 1880 he moved to Dallas County where in December 1881 he entered the employ of S. P. Mellick. A few months later he became a partner with him and on April 27, 1882 , landing at the new town of Rolfe Junction with a stock of dry goods, began to keep store in what is known as the First National bank building. In June 1883 he sold his interest in the store and engaged in the grain business until Jan. 1, 1889, when he became a partner with John Lee in the banking business that in 1893 was sold to Farmer, Helsell & Co., but with which he continued to be identified until March 1, 1901, when he moved to Mitchell, S. D. to engage in farming and stock raising. He was treasurer of Rolfe during the last ten years of his residence there, 1891-1900. On Dec. 11, 1889 , he married Anna D. Whittaker of Ill and has two children, Earl and Fay.
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