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Rh and on commerce. He was a delegate to the Peace convention that met in Washington in February, 1861. Gov. Reid served in the Confederate congress, and after the civil war resided on his farm in Rockingham county.

REID, George, soldier, b. in Londonderry, X. II., in 1733; d. there in September, 1815. His education was meagre. He became captain of a company of minute-men in 1775, and on receiving the news of the battle of Lexington joined Gen. John Stark's regiment at Medford, and took an honorable part at Bunker Hill. On 4 Nov., 1775, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 2d New Hampshire regi- ment, served as colonel after the capture of Nathan Hale, took part in the battle of Bemis Heights in October, 1777, and was present at the surrenders of Burgoyne and Cornwallis. He was made brigadier- general of New Hampshire militia in 1785, and sheriff of Rockingham county, N. IL, in 1791.

REID, Hugh Thompson, soldier, b. in Union county, Ind., 18 Oct., 1811 ; d. in Keokuk, Iowa, 21 Aug., 1874. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and, after graduation at Bloomington college, Ind., stud- ied law, was admitted to the bar, and removed in 1839 to Fort Madison. Iowa, practising there until 1849, when he removed to Keokuk and practised occasionally. In 1840-'2 he was prosecuting attor- ney for Lee, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, and Van Buren counties, holding high rank as a land law- yer. He was president for four years of the Des Moines Valley railroad. He entered the volunteer service as co'lonel of the 15th Iowa infantry in, and commanded it at Shiloh, where he was shot through the neck and fell from his horse, but remounted and rode down the lines, encouraging his men. He was in other actions, was appointed brigadier-general on 13 March, 1863, and com- manded the posts of Lake Providence, La., and Cairo, 111., until he resigned on 4 April, 1864.

REID, John, British soldier, b. in Scotland, 13 Feb., 1721 ; d. in London, England, 6 Feb., 1807. He was the son of Alexander Robertson, of Stra- loch, was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and entered the army as a lieutenant on 8 June, 1745. On 3 June, 1752, he became captain in the 42d regiment, and in 1758 he was appointed major. He served under Gen. James Wolfe and Gen. Jef- frey Amherst in the French war, and was wounded in the expedition against Martinique in 1762, and promoted lieutenant-colonel. In 1763 he was sent to the relief of Fort Pitt, and defeated its Indian besiegers in the well-fought battle of Bushy Run. In the summer of 1764 the 42d again participated in Col. Henry Bouquet's expedition against the Muskingum Indians. Lieut.-Col. Reid commanded all the British forces in the district of Port Pitt in 1765, and an officer of the same name is mentioned as commandant at Fort Chartres, 111., in 1766. In 1771 he obtained a large tract of land in Otter Creek, Vt., from which his tenants were expelled in 1772 by the people of Bennington. He became major-general in October, 1781, lieutenant-general on 12 Oct., 1793, and general on 1 Jan., 1798. REID, John Morrison, clergyman, b. in New York city, 30 May, 1820 ; d. there, 16 May, 1896. He was graduated at the University of New York in 1839, and became principal of the Mechanics' insti- tute school, holding this office until 1844. After graduation at Union theological seminary he was admitted to the New York Methodist Episcopal conference in 1844, and had preached in Connecti- cut, Long Island, and New York city. From 1858 till 1864 he was president of Genesee college, Lima, N. Y., and he became corresponding secretary of the Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1872. The University of the city of New York gave him the degree of D. D. in 1858, and the University of Syracuse that of LL. D. in 1883. He was editor of the " Western Christian Advocate," Cincinnati, in 1864. and of the " North- western Christian Advocate." Chicago, in 1808. He is the author of numerous tracts and articles, and of " Missions and Missionary Societies of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church " (2'vols., New York, 1880), and had edited " Doomed Religions " (1884). Dr. Reid was active in securing for the University of Syracuse the valuable library of Prof. Leopold von Ranke, the German historian, which includes about 50,000 volumes, some of his manuscripts, and sev- eral paintings by German artists.

'''REID. Mayne,''' author, b. in Ireland in 1818; d. near London.'England, 22 Oct.. 1883. He was the son of a Presbyterian clergyman, and was educated for the church, but, preferring adventure to the- ology, came to this country in 1840. He engaged in hunting and trading expeditions on Red and Missouri rivers, and travelled through nearly every state of the Union. Subsequently he settled in Philadelphia, where he wrote for magazines and journals until the beginning of the Mexican war, when he became a captain in the U. S. service, and was present at Vera Cruz and Chapultepec. where he led the forlorn hope and was wounded. In 1849 he raised a company in New York to aid the Hun- garian revolutionists, but when he reached Paris the insurrection in Austria had been suppressed. He then settled in London, and devoted his life to writing tales of adventure for boys. His numerous stories, in which he usually incorporated much in- formation on natural history, and which number about fifty volumes, include " The Rifle Rangers " (London, 1850); "The Scalp-Hunters" (1851); ' The Quadroon " (1855) ; " Osceola " (1858) ; " The Maroon" (1862); "The Cliff - Climbers " (1864): "Afloat in the Forest " (1865); "The Castaways" (1870) ; and " Gwen-Wynne " (1877). A collective edition of his works was published in New York (15 vols., 1868). Late editions of his works have been published in London in 1875 and 1878. In 1869 he established in New York a short-lived journal, called " Onward."

REID, Robert Raymond, governor of Florida, b. in Prince William parish, S. C., 8 Sept., 1789; d. near Tallahassee, Fla., 1 July, 1841. In early years he removed to Georgia, where he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised. From 1816 till 1819, and again from 1823 till 1825. he was a judge of the state superior court, serving in the interval in congress from 18 Feb., 1819, till 3 March, 1823, having been chosen as a Democrat. At the close of his term he was elected mayor-of Augusta, Ga., and in 1832 he was appointed judge of the superior court for the eastern district of Florida, and while holding this office he was a member of the conven- tion that formed a state constitution, of which body he was also president. From 1839 till 1841 he was governor of Florida.

REID, Samuel Chester, naval officer, b. in Norwich, Conn.. 25 Aug., 1783 ; d. in New York city, 28 Jan., 1861. He was the son of Lieut. John Reid of the British navy, who was taken prisoner in a night boat expedition at New London, Conn., and afterward resigned his commission. At the age of eleven the son went to sea, was captured by a French privateer and confined six months at Basseterre, Guadeloupe. Subsequently he served as acting midshipman in the "Baltimore" in Com. Thomas Truxton's West India squadron, and during the war of 1812 he. commanded the privateer brig "General Armstrong," with which he fought