From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 584-585.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


J. B. REED

J. B. Reed was born in Washington county, Penn., December 14, 1846.  
His boyhood was spent upon a farm and in Burnsville, Penn.  In March, 
1865, he enlisted in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, reaching the 
front about ten days before the surrender of Petersburg.  He spent 
the summer doing provost duty in Virginia, and was discharged with 
his regiment August 11th.  After this he attended college at 
Waynesburg and Washington, leaving the latter before graduating.  
Beginning the study of medicine in 1868 with Dr. Wilson, of 
Washington, he spent one winter at Michigan university, graduating in 
1872 at Western Reserve Medical college, Cleveland, Ohio.  For one  
year he practiced in Cameron, W.Va., six years in West Alexander, 
Penn., coming to Wheeling in 1880 as a partner of Dr. J. H. Pipes.  
Here he was very soon successful for he was of a genial, friendly 
disposition, quick to respond to the cause of the sick, day or night, 
and attentive to all his patients, however humble.  The extent of his 
practice may be estimated, when it is known that in a single year he 
attended 125 obstetrical cases.  It was Dr. Reed's self-sacrificing 
devoton to duty that was the indirect cause of his death.  In July, 
1887, he was for the second time since coming to Wheeling stricken 
down with typhoid fever, and after a very lingering illness died 
October 17th with symptoms of pyaemia.  He left behind him a wife, a 
daughter of the late Dr. John Stone, of Greensborough, Penn., and 
five children.  Dr. Reed was a Modest, consistent, Christian 
gentleman and a member of the Second Presbyterian church.  He was a 
member of the State and City Medical societies, and of the board of 
education of the city.  It can be truly said of Dr. Reed that he left 
no enemy behind him.      


(Linda Fluharty)