Stephen Reed, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stephen Reed

American geologist, physician and publisher

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1801

Date of Death: 12-Jul-1877

Profession: physician, geologist, publisher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Stephen Reed

  • Stephen Reed (September 26, 1801 – July 12, 1877) was an American physician, newspaper publisher, and geologist. Reed, younger son of John and Susanna (Beach) Reed, was born in Cornwall, Conn., September 26, 1801.
  • When ten years old, his parents removed to Canaan, Conn., from which place he came to college.
  • He graduated from Yale College in 1824.
  • After two or three years spent in school-teaching and in studying medicine, he established himself as a physician in Goshen, Conn.
  • A year later he removed to Roxbury, Conn., and in 1831 to Richmond, Mass.
  • Finding the exposure to the severity of the weather too much for his rather delicate constitution, he gave up his profession (about 1837), and opened a boarding-school for boys in Richmond, in which he proved highly successful.
  • In 1848 he removed to Pittsfield, Mass., to take charge of an agricultural warehouse and seed store, connected with a printing office from which a weekly agricultural and miscellaneous newspaper, the Berkshire Agriculturist, was published.
  • This paper, which he renamed The Culturist and Gazette, he continued to edit until 1858, when its publication was suspended.
  • (The paper is noted for publishing a satirical piece by Pittsfield resident Herman Melville in 1850.) Dr.
  • Reed afterwards sold out his share in the warehouse, and spent the rest of his life in Pittsfield, at leisure for his favorite study, geology.
  • His name became well known in connection with geological discoveries in Western New England, mainly through his account of a long train of bowlders across part of Central Berkshire.
  • He was also active in all the public interests of the town.
  • He died in Pittsfield, after less than a week's illness, July 12, 1877, aged nearly 76 years. He was married in 1829 to Emeline Beebe, a student of Sarah Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy, of Canaan, Conn., who died in 1832; and again, May 7, 1833, to Sarah E.
  • Chapin, who survived him.
  • He had no children. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

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