CHARLES REID, the youngest of the eleven children of Alexander and Catherine (Anderson) Reid, was born in Scotland July 13, 1813, and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to a cooper, whom he served three years, and then worked as journeyman until 1834, when he came to America, stopping awhile at London, Canada, and then coming to Fremont, Ohio. There he first worked as a journeyman, but soon started a shop of his own, employing five to eight hands, and turning out 100 barrels per day. In 1842, he married Miss Susannah Glaze, a native of Ohio, born November, 1821, and daughter of John and Rachel Glaze, of German extraction. To this union were born twelve children, of whom eleven grew to maturity, and ten are now living- Catherine (wife of Henry McFarland), Alexander (a minister and farmer), Rachel (wife of John N. Harbert), Susannah (wife of Jacob B. Timmons), Charles, John, James, Margaret (wife of Perry D. Teeters), Mary (wife of Frank Gibson) and Emrna. Mr. Reid came to this county in the fall of 1850, and is one of the three men yet living who settled in this township at that early day. He entered 160 acres of Government land, at $1.25 per acre; has created a comfortable home and increased his farm to 200 acres. He has served as Township Trustee nine years, and as Justice of the Peace nine years, and has filled other minor offices. Mrs. Reid died in December, 1876, a devout member of the Catholic Church, which church Mr. Reid joined in Scotland. In politics, Mr. Reid is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren in 1836.

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