John Reed has a memorial bench in his birthplace .
A memorial bench overlooks the site of Reed 's birthplace in Washington Park His mother , Margaret Green Reed , was the daughter of a leading Portland citizen who had made a fortune through three enterprises : as owner of the first gas works in Oregon , owner of the first pig iron smelter on the west coast , and as second owner of the Portland water works .
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