“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


SUMLAR A. REED,  clerk of the C., M. & St. P. R.R., Palmyra; born in 
Sullivan, Jefferson Co., Wis., Feb. 10, 1849; he has spent his life and 
been educated in his native State, completing his education at Milton 
College in 1870; he began as a railroad man the same year, and has since 
followed the business; was appointed to his present position in 
November, 1872; owing to the absence of Mr. Z. Willson, the agent, the 
railroad and express business is done by Mr. Reed and his assistant, D.L. 
Grant.  Mr. Reed is a member of Palmyra Lodge. A., F. & A.M.; also of 
Palmyra Lodge, I.O.O.F.; he is a Republican.  His parents, Darius and 
Marietta Reed, still live on their farm in Sullivan.


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