FROM:
The History of Livingston County, Illinois, Page 719. Wm. Le Baron. Jr., & Co., 186 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 1878.
"DANIEL REED, farmer, P.O. Ancona; was born in Clermont Co., Ohio., Dec. 29, 1826. He married Miss Eliza G. Merrill, March 8, 1849; she was born in Hunterdon Co., N. J., Feb. 6, 1830; they had seven children, three living - Mary C., Daniel M. and Franklin B. He lived in Ohio thirty years, where he learned and followed blacksmithing; he then came to Illinois and settled in Ancona, where he engaged at his trade, and remained until 1871, when he came to his present place and engaged in farming. He has been a School Director a number of years. He owns 160 acres here, besides property in Ancona; he came to this county in limited circumstances, and has earned his property by his own labor."
PARENTS:
Father, Conrad Reed born abt 1799, Washington County, PA. Mother, Catherine Weaver (Wavor-Waver) born 12 November 1807, Goshen Township, Clermont County, Ohio, died 17 February 1838.
