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Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature,
Officers of the State Governement and judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals,
West Virigina, 1917
Source:
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1917,
Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate,
The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West Va.
pgs. 719 - 770
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
pg. 720
Representatives.
THIRD DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis,
Nicholas, Ritchie, Upshur, and Webster (11 counties). Population (1910), 197,110.
STUART F. REED (Republican), of Clarksburg, was born and reared on a
farm in Barbour County, W.Va. He obtained money to attend college by saving
his earnings as a farm hand and country-school teacher. A brief summary of
Mr. Reed's career appearing in the last edition of "Who's Who in America"
shows that he was editor Clarksburg Telegram eight years; elected president
West Virginia Editorial Association three terms; elected State senator, serving
four years; was chairman senate committee on education; regent West Virginia
University; originator of School of Commerce and founder of the Athenaeum
(college journal) of the university; member West Virginia Republican State
committee; vice president National League of Republican Clubs; member
national literary bureau of Republican national executive committee; member
World's Literary Congress (Chicago); vice president National Republican
Editorial Association (Washington, D. C., 1904); declined appointment consul
general, Buenos Aires, 1905; president board trustees Broaddus Classical and
Scientific Institute 1901-1908; eminent commander Knights Templar 1908;
member International Tax Conference, Louisville, Ky., 1909; president State
Y. M. 0. A. convention 1910; elected secretary of state of West Virginia two
consecutive terms, 1909-1917; vice president West Virginia Semi-Centennial
Commission 1913; elected president Association of American Secretaries of
State, Cincinnati, 1915; received diploma (Fairmont State Normal) and degrees
LL. B. (West Virginia University), and Ph. D. (Salem College); married Miss
Bonnie Belle Smith, of Clarksburg; is a Shriner, Elk, and Modern Woodman of
America; Baptist; was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress by a majority of 680,
receiving 23,442 votes, to 22,762 for F. N. Alderson, Democrat.
Submitted by: Valerie Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>
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