Reed, Thomas bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 960, Woodland Township
Thomas Reed, farmer, sec. 32; P. O., Astoria; was born in Pennsylvania in 1817; his father, John M. Reed, was born in Beaver Co., Pa., a farmer, who married Mary Hinds; they had 8 children; Thomas, the fifth, grew to manhood in Coshocton Co., O., where the family afterward removed. In 1843 Mr. R. moved to Illinois and first located in Schuyler Co., where he married, his wife died April 27, '77. Mr. Reed now owns 160 acres of land.