Putnam patriot., 1917-02-23
F. E. REED DEAD
s...a Machine Tool Maker Dies al
 Thompson Home
..,.... With ParaIytic Shock February Ninth

Frederic E. Reed, resiuehs oi r..,,scn since 1901, died at his home .,s :, town at five o'clock Saturday naosnine = following paraiytic shock .rs..,ned Friday, Feb. sth'
 Fo, nearly his whole life MT. Reed ,.. neen identified with business in- ...,s |, the city of Worcester. He w.s :. pioneer machine and tool msnn' ,....,.r of the United States and was ... nesl of several prominent corpora .... that finally consolidate d as Mir. peed retired to give way to younger men.
 ur. Reed. started business when he v.s bu. IT years old as mnchinist hut after two years he returned to .,hoo, and took a course at Worcester .c,demy and at a busicess college While attending school he kept books ,,vhts for concern in which his hiber WAS interested. He entered the drafting department of the concern ..d to m ske himself proficient at- tended \ night school where drafting was taught.
 Tn 1875 Mr. Reed bought . business of his own and developed 1t along broad lines. Additions were being made constantly to take care of the growing business and outside capital vas attracted. The business continued and expanded under different names but finally 1t all reverted to MT. Reed.
 When MT. Reed actively begun in the machine tool business he had six employees, and when he retired the F. K. Reed Co. had on an average more than 1000 on the pay roll, the majority being skilled mschinists, whose in terest m the work was as great as that of their employer, due principally to their congenial surroundings for good work.
 MT, Reed started with the manu lecture of an improved upright drill hand and power foot drill Isthes, slide rests, milled machine screws, and made to order special machines of all kinds, his lathe business being prin dpaliy of manufacture, in those days, of F inch and l4 inch lathe, aitho later a I6 inch lathe was made.
 Mir. Reeds business when he retired hsd the world as its field, the qualit, d the product being surpassed by but few manufacturers, and this was re cognized during the Russian Japanese war, when the Japanese imperial gov efnment ordered several hundred on rush orders for work in arsenals.
 These were set up thruout the muni ton manufacturing points in Japan and with American machinists as in st-uctors the Japanese were soon sbl to turn out munitions in sufficiently large order to keep the army and navy forces adequately supplied, Worcester made lalhes playing prominent part.
 Before the big European war Mir. Reed made large shipments to forei gn countries, England and France being large buyers, but other buyers were not neglected, as they went every. where, while domestic orders, we re taken care of at the same time.
 Mir. Reed retired Tn 1912, when the financial interests pooled and formed the Reed. Prentice Corporation and took over three big plants owned by Mir. Reed, Lee HigRinson & Co, Bos- ton, were the financial agents, and the preferred stock placed on sale at their various offices was eagerly gobbled up.
 It was the ii rst time in the history of Worcester's industrisls that a stock of a Worcester manufacturing concern had been bought on a European mar ket.
 MT. Reed also was heavily interest. ed financially in other Worcester con serns.
 He also helped organize the Worces-  ter Lawn Mower Co.,, and was treas urer At time of his death. MT. Reed gave his entire time to his business an home and never was known to take an interest in a social fraternal organization.
 MT. Reed was the second presider d Worcester branch, National metal trades association, and is the first man b tie who has held the presidency. He served as head of the branch from 1904 b 1905.
 MT. Reed had been member of the ooard of directors of the First National s,nk, previous to its consolidation with the Worcester Trust Co.
 He was born in Croyde N. H. and with his parents came to Worcester when he was very young.
 He leaves his wife, Elizabeth (An' drews); son, Charles Winter, and hree daughters, including Florence wife of Fred Stanley Morton. sos Main street, both of Worcester; Miss Olive Need, at the home In Thompson and Margaret, wife of Ernest Bigelow Free. man, Milton and Hyde Park.
 lie Is the last of his branch of the