Women / Persons ~ P10638
Mary Ann Reed
Alternate Names:
- Mary Ann Mullen
- Mrs. Reed
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 1865 - 1832
Types:
- Businesswoman
- Model of faith, piety
- Mother of notable man
- Teacher
- Writer, Nonfiction
Note: Account is based on grandson's memoir of Mrs. Reed's oldest surviving son. Also, there's a memoir of them in Weekly Welcome published by Partridge. Mother of Dr. Andrew Reed, found of asylyms. Wrote a diary. Missionary Rev. Eyre came to home. To free watchmaker husband from work so he could preach, she opened a china shop.