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By C. H. Wendel

A Brief Word Somewhere in our reading we came across the obituary for Joseph Reid, extracts of which follow: Joseph Reid was born on November 11, 1843 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, where he attended public schools until his eleventh year. He then was apprenticed by his father to learn the joiner's trade, at which he worked for four years. Later he became a machinist in the railroad shops of the Glasgow & Southwestern Railroad Company, Kilmarnock, Scotland.

In 1863 Mr. Reid located in Montreal, Canada, where he worked for a short time as a machinist, after which he followed his trade in the United States, and was for some years connected with the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. In 1876 he entered the service of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, now the Erie Railroad, at Meadville, Pennsylvania.

In the following year he went to Oil City, where he worke...

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