REED, JAMES H.

REED, POMEROY

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Date: 10/4/2001 at 13:07:58

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

JAMES H. REED, photograph artist, Fifth avenue; he was born in Joliet Ill., Jan. 26, 1836, and was educated in Galesburg and Fulton, Ill., to which latter place his family moved in 1838. He is a photographic artist of unusual ability, and is a leading member of the National Photographic Association of the United States. He has been more or less identified with the interests of Clinton from its foundation to the present time, part of the time making his home just across the river in Fulton, Ill. but for the past seven years a permanent resident of Clinton. He married Miss Anita A. Pomeroy, of Milwaukee, Wis., on the 25th of February, 1871, and has two children- Mabel W. and Ralph; his family are members and regular attendants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was a poor man when he commenced business with a borrowed capital of $300, and is now worth from $15,000 to $20,000, with unlimited credit.