Elihu Dinwiddie Reid (born Jan. 9, 1807 - died Jan. 9, 1880), son of James and Isabella (Dinwiddie) Reid, grandson of Hugh and Jean (Crawford) Dinwiddie, or Dunwoody, and a descendant of the Dinwoodie and Reid families of Adams county. The Dinwiddies were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and in politics were Whigs, as distinguished from Tories.
Elihu Dinwiddie Reid served in the war of the Rebellion as lieutenant of Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves, and afterward as quartermaster and commissary of the Brigade, serving in all three years, and participating in the battles of Drainesville, Fredericksburg, Antietam and Gettysburg.
Early in life Mr. Reid engaged in the dry goods business at Shippensburg, but came to Chambersburg in 1830, and formed the dry goods firm of Maclay & Reid. The partnership on lasted two years, after which he conducted the business alone for many years. Later he went to California, and lived at Sacramento for three years.
Married Dec. 2 1834, Elizabeth Culbertson.
Capt. Dinwiddie and Elizabteh Reid had issue:
Samuel D. C., Edmund, Helen Stenger, Annie Bowman.
Source: Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Elihu Dinwiddie Reid served in the war of the Rebellion as lieutenant of Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves, and afterward as quartermaster and commissary of the Brigade, serving in all three years, and participating in the battles of Drainesville, Fredericksburg, Antietam and Gettysburg.
Early in life Mr. Reid engaged in the dry goods business at Shippensburg, but came to Chambersburg in 1830, and formed the dry goods firm of Maclay & Reid. The partnership on lasted two years, after which he conducted the business alone for many years. Later he went to California, and lived at Sacramento for three years.
Married Dec. 2 1834, Elizabeth Culbertson.
Capt. Dinwiddie and Elizabteh Reid had issue:
Samuel D. C., Edmund, Helen Stenger, Annie Bowman.
Source: Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Elihu Dinwiddie Reid (born Jan. 9, 1807 - died Jan. 9, 1880), son of James and Isabella (Dinwiddie) Reid, grandson of Hugh and Jean (Crawford) Dinwiddie, or Dunwoody, and a descendant of the Dinwoodie and Reid families of Adams county. The Dinwiddies were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and in politics were Whigs, as distinguished from Tories.
Elihu Dinwiddie Reid served in the war of the Rebellion as lieutenant of Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves, and afterward as quartermaster and commissary of the Brigade, serving in all three years, and participating in the battles of Drainesville, Fredericksburg, Antietam and Gettysburg.
Early in life Mr. Reid engaged in the dry goods business at Shippensburg, but came to Chambersburg in 1830, and formed the dry goods firm of Maclay & Reid. The partnership on lasted two years, after which he conducted the business alone for many years. Later he went to California, and lived at Sacramento for three years.
Married Dec. 2 1834, Elizabeth Culbertson.
Capt. Dinwiddie and Elizabteh Reid had issue:
Samuel D. C., Edmund, Helen Stenger, Annie Bowman.
Source: Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Elihu Dinwiddie Reid served in the war of the Rebellion as lieutenant of Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Reserves, and afterward as quartermaster and commissary of the Brigade, serving in all three years, and participating in the battles of Drainesville, Fredericksburg, Antietam and Gettysburg.
Early in life Mr. Reid engaged in the dry goods business at Shippensburg, but came to Chambersburg in 1830, and formed the dry goods firm of Maclay & Reid. The partnership on lasted two years, after which he conducted the business alone for many years. Later he went to California, and lived at Sacramento for three years.
Married Dec. 2 1834, Elizabeth Culbertson.
Capt. Dinwiddie and Elizabteh Reid had issue:
Samuel D. C., Edmund, Helen Stenger, Annie Bowman.
Source: Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
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