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SOURCE: History of Genesee County, Michigan
        pub. Everts and Abbott - 1879

        Page 301

 
                              JOHN REID

  John Reid was born in the township of Rush, Monroe Co., N.Y., July 16, 
1822. His father, Benjamin T. Reid, came, with his family, to Michigan 
in 1834, with the intention of locating, but were taken with the cholera 
on their way, and within five weeks of their arrival Mr. and Mrs. Reid, 
one son, and a daughter died. John was then a boy of twelve, and was thus 
left an orphan and without any means. He made his home with his sister, 
Mrs. Tupper, with whom he resided until after his marriage. The country 
was then new, and his chances for an education were limited; still he 
acquired sufficient to fit him for the active and successful business 
man he afterwards became. He first bought fifty-four acres of land in 
Clayton, which he afterwards deeded to Dudley Brainard in exchange for 
the one hundred and twenty acres now owned by his wife, and which he 
called the Reid farm. One consideration of the exchange was that Mr. 
Reid should support Mr. Brainard and his sister during their lifetime. 
This was his start in life. The farm was cleared and improved by his 
hard labor, and to it he added, until at the time of his death he was 
the possessor of three hundred acres of land under improvement. He was 
the owner and proprietor of the Reid House for twelve years, and be- 
came widely known. In politics, Mr. Reid was an ardent Republican, and 
used his influence and money to advance the interests of his party, 
although he was never an office-seeker or office-holder. He died Jan. 
12, 1875, mourned by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. 

  Mr. Reid married, Nov. 20, 1845, Miss Almira Halleck, daughter of 
Amos and Rachel (Crane) Halleck. Mrs. Reid was born, March 5, 1824, 
in Chittenden Co., Vt. Their union was blessed with four children, 
as follows: Adelaide J., born May 27, 1847 ; Susan A., born April 4, 
1853; George W., born Nov. 1, 1857; and Alfred H. born Sept. 3, 1860. 

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