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JOSEPH S. REED, planing-mill, post office Hulton, was born in Bedford county, Pa., in 1823, a son of Michael and Elizabeth Reed, natives of Franklin county, Pa., the former of whom was a surveyor and justice of the peace in Bedford county for about thirty years, and died in 1873, at the age of eighty-four, and latter died in 1858, aged fifty-three years. Joseph S. Reed received his education in Bedford county, and remained with his father until he was thirty years old. When he was twenty-one he enlisted for the Mexican war, in Company L, 2nd Pennsylvania regiment, Capt. Taylor in command. They were attached to Gen. Pierce’s division, and when at the City of Mexico Mr. Reed was seized with the yellow fever, and sent to New Orleans on the first train after the close of the war; two months later he was able to be sent home. Prior to his service in the Mexican war, he served his time at chair and cabinet making. After the war he engaged in contracting and house building, and later in the lumber business; he also operated a planing-mill at Altoona for two years, after ward had large lumber-mills in Clearfield and Centre counties, and then started a large planing-mill and box-factory in Pittsburgh and Allegheny City. The panic of 1876 caused him to lose $250,000. He bought his present site at Verona in 1886, and is doing a good business. Mr. Reed was married, in 1849, to Charlotta, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Over, and four boys and five girls have been born to them, as follows: Elizabeth (Mrs. A. E. Morrison), Emma, William Worth, Robert B., Ella, Charles, Julia (deceased), Lucy and Jacob. Mr. Reed was reared in the G. R. Church, and is now a member of the Presbyterian Church; he is a member of I. O. O. F., F. & A. M., and a life member of his chapter.