Jared Reid (1824-1886)
Jared Reid, Headteacher, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts
He was born at Reading, Massachusetts, where his mother helped found the first female anti-slavery society in North America. He was educated at Tiverton College, Rhode Island, before entering Yale in 1846. He studied medicine at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of New York, but instead chose a teaching career. In 1855, he established and was Principal of the "Edwards Place School" at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In 1863 he taught at Miss Brace's School for Girls, New Haven, and was then Principal of Eagleswood Military Academy at Perth Amboy, New Jersey (1864-1866), before returning to his re-open his own school back at Stockbridge. In 1873, he established a family school for girls at Richmond, Massachusetts, but after it failed he went to New York where he found employ in one of the large publishing houses. Before his death in 1885 he was Assistant Editor at the New York Evangelist. He died at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., survived by one daughters and four sons including Robert, the impressionist artist.
