Captain Robert Marion Reid

Captain Robert Marion Reid - is the son of Hon. John and Elizabeth Reid of Columbiana county, Ohio; he was born March 22, 1827, in Madison township in that county. His father represented the county in the State Legislature, and was its first Probate Judge. One the 1st day of September, 1853, he was married to Miss Harriet J. Carle, of Butler township, in his own native county, with whom he had two sons, and one daughter: Eugene Carle, born November 7, 1854; John, born September 20, 1857, died March, 1858; Mary Alice, born February 25, 1864. He filled many of the township offices, served as Land Appraiser, and for many years was Justice of the Peace; was a zealous working granger; held the office of County Deputy, and his death, which occurred on the 6th day of September, 1875, caused a vacancy that will be hard to fill. Mrs. Harriet J. Reid was born in Butler township, Columbiana county, September 5, 1832; she was married to Captain Robert M. Reid by Rev. William H. H. Moore, a Methodist minister; is the daughter of Richard L. and Mary Carle. Address, Reid’s, Postoffice, Paulding county, Ohio.