Additional material on George O. Reed

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CO'Jling fl"Om OV1d, whers ha b88 been factory manager Sino

19ls.5,

GeorQe Oo Re@d

1a well ocquaintad vith agrioultura in Eastern Colora&>. lie bringa to him new

respon-s1bil1t1es at Sto1-l1ng a comP'l!"ehensive

sxperlenca with sugar

beeta

backed up

by

thorough

college training and

PL"8,Ct1cel

experience

BB

a

county

agent.

Mr. Reed is e:q>eeted to com.fl

to

S~rling about July 26 and will 1>1ork with lh>o

Engliob through August

6

when he will take cbsrge

ot

the

f'actm-y.

Nro R~ecl. ~,aa born on a beet-groNing f'erm 1n Bancock county, Ohio, tb3 son of

Mi'.'. and

Mm.

J.M. R"d of Findlay, Ohio. llie earliest boyhood experienc0s were comieo~d. with the bset crop in the Findlay area and he recalls hov vet beet pulp was shipped

to

hia

farm 1n box oa.I°a floe& the Fremont factory-o

After attond1ng el.al!l1'ntery £lllld high eohools at Fin8~ .. uy, bs entered Ohio Sta.to

t:'iltver81ty ~ uhich h0 was graduated, Bsohelor of Science 1n Agrioul.ture in l9l5o Bo thon

CO'.lllty, Ohio.

---In 1924 th-. Read entared the

se~1oe

of The Gr3at Western Su.gar Company aa fialdwm

at Fort ~rga.n vbere lw eerTsd uni11 194.lf with the e:m91.•.tion of one ,-ar, 1927,· at Brush.

In 19144 he ~oeme ass111Jt-mit

to

the manager at Brush, and became manager at OTid 1n

1945.

Be 'ifws married to 1:1.iss Bffn1ce Brown at Clyde, Ohio and

t

y have t.l'J!tee children:

Mi..na o Fred G. Mi.nu.th, folfTiffly Barbera Read,

was

g!t"aduated from Colorado College 1n

1948.

John, 20, 1s attending th1vors1t~ of Colorado. HG was in the air corps during the war and served with the occupational f0l."0es 1n Japan. JerCJEIJl3, 18, is attending Colorado A & M

colle~.

Mr. Reed 1es a member of ths Presb,-ter1an ohllroh, the Masonic Loc1ge and the Elks Lodge.