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LL.D. from the University of Vermont in 184G. He was married to Elizabeth White, daughter of Enos Bronson of Philadelphia. He assisted Wordsworth in an arrangement of an American edition of his poems in 1837, and wrote a preface to the volume and an article on Wordsworth in the New York Eevieic in 1839. He also superin- tended the publication of an edition of Dr. Chris- topher Wordsworth's memoirs of the poet (2 vols., 1851). He edited Alexander Reed's " Dictionary of the English Language" (1845); American re- prints of Thomas Arnold's " Lectures on Modern History (1815); George F. Graham's "English Synonj-ms" (1847); Lord Mahon's "History of England" (2 vols., 1849), and the poetical works of Thomas Gray, with a memoir (1850). He is tlie author of: Lectures of English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson (1855); Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry as Illustrated by Shakespeare (1855); Lectures on the History of the American Union (1856), and Lectures on the British Poets (2 vols., 1857). He sailed for Eng- land on the stea,ineT Arctic, which was lost at sea, Sept 27, 1854.

REED, James, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 8, 1834; son of Sampson and Cath- erine (Clark) Reed ; grandson of the Rev. Dr. John and Hannah (Sampson) Reed, and of John and Lydia (Sanderson) Clark, and a descendant of William Reade of Weymouth, Mass., who arrived from England in 1635. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1855, A.M.. 1858, and was married, Dec. 19, 1858, to Emily Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Ripley of Brookline, Mass. He entered the ministry of the New Church (Swedenborgian), and was connected with the Boston .society of the New Jerusalem Church as assistant minister, 1860-68, being made pastor in 1868. In 1894 he became president of the New Church Theological seminary. He also served as president of the Massachusetts Home for Intem- perate Women, and as a member of the Boston school board. He edited the New Church Review from 1894, and is the author of : Religion and Life (1809); Man and Woman, Equal but Unlike (1870); Swedcnborg and the New Church {ISbO).

REED, John, clergyman, was born in Framing- ham, Mass., Nov. 11, 1751 ; son of Solomon (a clergyman at Middleljorough, Mass.) and Abigail (Stoughton, or Houghton) Reed ; grandson of William and Alice (Nash) Reed, and a descend- ant of William Reade of Weymouth, who came from England about 1635. He was graduated from Yale in 1772 ; was married in 1780 to Han- nah, daughter of Uriah and Anna (White) Samp- son of Middleborough, and practised law, 1773- 80. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1780, and was settled at the church in West Bridgewater, 1780-1831. He represented

his district in the 4th, 5th and 6th congresses as a Federalist, 1795-1801, and served for a time as chaplnin of the U.S. navy. He received the hon- orary degree of D.D. from Brown in 1803. He is the author of : An Apology for the Rite of Infant Baptism (1806), besides several ordination and convention sermons (1787-1804). He died in West Bridgewater, Mass., Feb. 17, 1831.

REED, John, representative, was born in West Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 2, 1781 ; son of the Rev. Dr. John and Hannah (Sampson) Reed. He was graduated from Brown uni- versity, A.B.,'l803, A.M., 1806; was tutor in languages at Brown, 1804-06 ; principal of the academy at Bridgewater, Mass., 1806-07 ; studied law with William Baylies, and engaged in prac- tice in Yarmouth, Mass. He was married in 1809 to Olive, daughter of Abiezer and Hepzibah (Keith) Alger of West Bridgewater. He was a Federalist representative in the 13th and 14th congresses, 1813-17 ; a Whig representative in the 17th-26th congresses, 1821-41, and lieutenant- governor of Massachusetts, 1845-51. The honor- ary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Brown in 1845. He died in West Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 25, 1860.

REED, Joseph, statesman, was born in Tren- ton, N.J., Aug. 27, 1741 ; son of Andrew and Theodosia (Bowers) Reed. His grandfather emi- grated from Carrickfergus, Ireland, and his father, a prosperous storekeeper in Trenton, removed to Philadelphia, Pa., soon after 1741, residing there till about 1752, when he returned to Trenton. Joseph prepared for college in Philadelphia, and was graduated from the Col- lege of New Jersey, A.B., 1757, A.M., 1760; studied law with Robert Stockton, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1762. He was a law student at the Middle Temple, London, England, 1765-67, and was deputy-secretary of New Jersey in 1767. He was married in May, 1770, to Esther, daughter of Dennis De Berdt of London, England. He removed to Philadelphia in October, 1770, and there continued the practice of law. In 1772, upon the succession of the Earl of Dartmouth to the colonial office. Reed became his confiden- tial correspondent, and was of great assistance to the colonists in informing the British ministry of the actual condition of afTairs in America. He endeavored to persuade the British ministry to adopt moderate measures toward the colonists and advised that : " This country will be deluged in blood before it will submit to any taxation than by their own legislature." He was a mem- ber of the committee of correspondence for Phila- delphia in 1774 ; was president of the Pennsyl- vania provincial convention in January, 1775 ; accompanied Washington to Boston in July, 1775, and accepted the post of aide and con-