The History of the Township and Village of Mazomanie, 
BY WILLIAM KITTLE, MADISON, WIS. 
STATE JOURNAL PRINTING CO. 1900.

EDWIN T. REED was born November 29, 1850, in Monclova, 
Ohio. At the age of thirteen he enlisted in Co. I of the 
14th Ohio Infantry and served until 1865. He was wounded 
at Atlanta three times, but was on Sherman's march to the 
sea. From 1865 to 1869 he worked in machine shops at 
Elkhart, Ind., and then was an engineer for ten years on 
the L. S. and M. S. R. R. For the next three years he was 
employed on the Pinkerton detective force. In 1883 he 
married Miss Hettie Preston and they have one 
child--Helen. For the last seventeen years he has been on 
the road selling machinery.

Submitted by Randi McCartney