After  sen'ing  his  apprenticeship  he  went  to  Shoemakersville  and  entered  the


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employ  of  George  Althouse,  with  whom  he  remained  over  a  year,  thence  mov-
ing to  Tamaqua,  where  he  worked  for  George  Bond  over  a  year.  Leaving  there
he  went  back  to  Albany  township,  and  began  business  for  himself,  after  three
years  of  experience  in  that  location  coming  to  McKeansburg,  where  he  bought
the  place  he  is  now  occupying.  He  does  general  shop  work,  painting,  black-
smithing,  horseshoeing  and  wheelwrighting.  He  has  now  been  doing  business
at  McKeansburg  for  about  eight  years,  during  which  time  he  has  been  gaining
steadily  in  the  esteem  of  his  fellow  citizens.  His  energies  have  not  been
given  entirely  to  business,  however,  for  he  has  found  much  to  interest  him  in
the  town  where  he  has  established  his  home.  He  is  a  past  councilor  of  Protec-
tion Council,  No.  935,  Order  of  Independent  Americans,  at  McKeansburg,  and
district  treasurer  for  the  Pension  Life  Society  of  Pittsburgh.  As  a  member
of  Christ  Lutheran  Church  of  McKeansburg  he  has  aided  in  its  work,  and  has
been  especially  active  in  the  Sunday  school.     Politically  he  is  independent.
Mr.  Reed  was  married  to  Stella  May  Boyer,  daughter  of  Lewis  W.  Boyer,
and  they  have  had  three  children;  Florence  Irene,  born  in  November,  1910;
Oscar  Henry,  born  in  March,  1912;  and  an  infant  yet  unnamed.
Samuel  Boyer,  great-grandfather  of  Mrs.  Charles  O.  Reed,  was  a  farmer,
owning  a  small  tract  of  land.  He  died  aged  about  sixty  years,  and  is  buried
with  his  wife  in  the  cemetery  of  the  Frieden's  Church  at  New  Ringgold.  He
belonged  to  the  Lutheran  congregation  there,  and  was  a  Democrat  in  politics.
