The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-07

! ulptoma from the medical college at
/ Cincinnati, and commenced the practice
OF medicine. Through. the cholera
scourge Of 1882 at Cincinnati, in the
| hospital there and elsewhere, he
displayed that unflinching courage and
self-abnegation that became so marked
in his later life. Within a few years we
| find him owner and editor Of the
| Western Medical Gazette at Cincinnati,
! then at st. Louis, where he established
the white lead mills, now known as the
| Collier White Lead Works, the largest
IN this country, taking machinery with
him from Cincinnati. The west-the
far west-already had its hold upon his
Imagination. Already he saw the pos
sibilities OF the Western Reserve, then
further from Boston in feeling than
India is to-day. He was appointed
Surveyor General of Illinois and
Missouri by President Harrison, and il
was his greatest pride that he had per-
sonally first surveyed many of those
miles that had developed into the fruit
full fields or great cities of those States.
In 1889 he first visited Boston, aud
there, ali adsme with the west, he
publicly advocated the building of a
railroad to st. Louis; at the very time
that Boston was trying to get money
enough and public interest enough to
extend the railroad to Albany. Those
curious in such matters can find at the
Atheneum his letters in the files Of the
Boston Post Of that year. and in that
year and subsequently in Boston papers
and in his own paper, the ST. Louis
Morning POSt, he advocated his plan of
railroad from the Mississippi River TO
the Pacific. and made predictions which
he lived to see verified, though he was
known at the time as the mad DOCTOR"
His enthusiasm was as boundless as he
prairies and the mountains that he
loved with his whole heart. and this
enthusiasm never left hun. He was the
intimate and trusted friend of President
John Tyler. and by his influence on
President Tyler he secured the appoint
ment of Lieut.. John O. Fremont 1.-THE
son-in-law of Senator Benton chief OF an
expedition to explore theRocky Mount
aims. His mind, ever alert TO geological
investigation, soon grasped at the pos
sibilides of the mineral wealth of
Missouri, and for several years he was
deeply interested in the development Of
the copper and iron interests there,
erecting smelters, among the first in
that State. He was the warm personal
friend and the ardent supporter of
President Lincoln. In st. Louis, at the
outbreak of the civil war, his Republi-
canism knew neither fear nor favor.
Bold. loyal, outspoken, he made him
self heard and felt, and in 1861 assisted
Gen. Frank Blair in organizing q
company of minute men. the first COM
pany organized to protect st. Louis
against the rebels, and his name stands
second on the roll. When the sick and
wounded began to arrive at st, Louis in
the autumn OF 1861 be was serving as an
active assistant surgeon, and so con-
tinued, without thought or heed to
rank or position, until 1868, when he
was put in charge OF the invalid corps
at Camp Jackson, St. Louis. Suisse
quently at the military hospital at
Nashville, and especially after the battle
OF Chickamauga. he was always found
loyal, untiring, self-sacriicing. needless
of everything but the great work before
him. In 1869, Gen. Grant, an old
friend appointed him Surveyor-General
of the Territory OF Wyoming, and the
same enthusiasm, energy and devotion
| that marked his career when he put his
impress on the new surveys of Illinois
and Missouri, followed him there, and
his plats at the land office, as he was
accustomed to say, would be his monu
ment and his record to the generations
yet unborn. Texas and its railroad
development, simultaneously with large
mining int. ests in Utah, engaged his
attention for the next few years and
until the day of his death. He died at
Park City, Utah, on October l. from
/ pneumonia contracted but a few days
before, at the age OF 80 years. in the
presence of the mountains which ne
loved so well, and as he would have
wished 10 die, in harness, hopeful.
trustful and loyal to the end. DR. Reed
was member Of the New England His
toric, Genealogical Society, and greatly
interested in its OBJECTS and work
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