Bedford-Franklin County PA Archives Biographies.....Reed, John P.  
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Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania.  With Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers & Prominent Men
Author: Waterman & Watkins; Chicago; 1884

John P. Reed was born in the town of Schellsburg, Bedford county, 
Pennsylvania.  He is a grandson of John Schell, the founder of Schellsburg and 
a son of Hon. Michael Reed.  The latter was a native of Washington township, 
Franklin county, Pennsylvania.  He settled at Schellsburg about the year 1810, 
and soon after married Elizabeth, a daughter of John Schell.  He was a 
gentleman whose early education had, from force of circumstances, been 
neglected, but he possessed great natural ability.  He was a self-taught 
surveyor.  About the years 1815-16, when the turnpike from Bedford westward 
was being constructed, he was urged by the managers of the turpike company to 
survey and lay out the route over the Allegheny mountain--the road in use 
today.  He finally complied with their request, made his own instruments and 
completed the work to the entire satisfaction of the managers.  Afterward he 
performed a vast amount of civil engineering and surveying.  He also served as 
justice of the peace, county surveyor, and represented Bedford county two 
terms in the state legislature.  His children were Elizabeth, John P., Maria, 
Jacob, Margaret, Joseph, Charlotte and Peter, all of whom survive.  He died at 
Schellsburg in 1872 at the age of eighty-four years.  John P. Reed was 
educated at Schellsburg.  He has resided in Beford, Pennsylvania, since the 
fall of 1848, at which time he was elected prothonotary, register and recorder 
and clerk of courts.  He was re-elected to the same offices in 1869.  On the 
9th of February 1852, he was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced his 
profession in the town of Bedford.


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