descent, respectively, the former being from the North of Ireland and the latter from Dublin. Isaiah Reid received a fair education in his youth, and after attaining a suitable age was engaged in teaching school, then became a merchant and later a farmer. He came to America just after his marriage, and settled near Charleston, in York County, S. C., but in 1815 emigrated to the then new region for settlement, Southern Indiana, where they spent the rest of their lives, the former living past middle life, and the latter to the age of ninety-two years. She was a lady of refinement and considerable education, and both were of the old Covenanter stock of the Presbyterian faith, and from early youth were identified with the church. The maternal grandparents, William McKnight and his wife, were of pure Scotch birth, being born at Glasgow, Scotland, and at an early day came to the United States, and were among the earliest settlers of Washington County, Ind. Mr. McKnight identified himself with the struggles against the Indian depredations in that region, and lived to a fair old age, dying of fever. His wife outlived him, dying while in the eighties. Rev. Isaiah Reid, the immediate subject of this sketch, came to Iowa with his parents, and in October, 1854, entered Kossuth Academy, an institution which was ten miles distant from his home, and attended this and other educational institutions until 1861, graduating in June of that year, from what was then known as Yellow Spring College, which was under the direction of the Presbyterians of Iowa, of which Parson's College, of Fairfield, Iowa, is now the legal successor. He was converted to Christianity in the month of March, 1856, and in September, 1861, he entered Auburn Theological Seminary, New York, and was licensed to preach by the Cayuga Presbytery of New York, in May, 1863. In the summer of that year he traveled as a missionary among the boatmen on the Genesee Valley Canal, under the auspices of the American Bethel Seamen's Society, but the following year pursued his theological studies in the Seminary of Auburn, N. Y., graduating in May, 1864, being ordained the following month as an evangelist, by the Presbytery of Keokuk, Iowa. He immediately began preaching at Nevada, continuing there as pastor, until 1873, but also preaching at Iowa Centre, Centre Grove and elsewhere. In June of the last-named year, at the first National camp-meeting, in Iowa, for the promotion of holiness, Mr. Reid experienced holiness, or perfect love, and the following October he took charge of the Presbyterian Church, at Albion, Marshall County, Iowa, continuing there until March, 1875, when lie accepted a call to his old charge at Nevada. At this time he was also pastor of a newly organized Presbyterian Church at Centre Grove, Iowa, twelve miles south of Nevada. In November, 1875, he began the publication of Highway Papers, of which the Highway is the legal successor, the latter being issued weekly since January, 1879. In November, 1877, he closed connection with the church at Nevada., and the following month went to Chicago, Ill., to engage in holiness missionary work, under the care of a number of special friends of the cause, and March, of the following year he began general evangelical work. In August, of that year, he began band camp-meeting work, at West Union, Schuyler County, Ill., which he has continued each summer since, making his home at the old headquarters, Nevada, Iowa. In the spring of 1879 he drew up and published a call for the temporary organization of the Iowa Holiness Association, and in the month of July, was put in charge as president of the permanent Holiness Association, which was organized at the first annual camp-meeting, which was held ,near Jefferson, Iowa, and he has con-