Lewis D. Reed, M. D., is a native son of Bartholomew County, is a representative of a family here founded in the pioneer days, and here he has found ample field for his loyal and effective service as one of the able physicians and surgeons of his native county. He has been successfully established in the general practice of his profession in the thriving little City of Hope during a period of more than thirty years. Doctor Reed was born on the parental home farm near Hope, this county, and the date of his nativity was September 2, 1863. He is a son of the late Christian L. and Elizabeth (Lortz) Reed, who became the parents of nine children. Christian L. Reed was born and reared in North Carolina and his wife in Indiana, their marriage having been solemnized in Bartholomew County, where they passed the remainder of their lives, secure in the high esteem of all who knew them. Christian L. Reed was reared and educated in his native state and was a young man when he came to Indiana, in 1830, and settled on a farm near Hope, this attractive little city having been platted as a village a short time previously. He became one of the successful farmers and merchants of his adopted county and was influential in community affairs. Though not ambitious for public office he manifested his civic loyalty in his period of service as township trustee. The public schools of Hope afforded Doctor Reed his early education, which was here advanced by his attending the State Normal School. In preparation for his chosen profession he completed a course in the Central College of Physicians and surgeons, Indianapolis, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he was in active general practice at Fairfield, Franklin County, seven years, and he then returned to the old home community and established his residence at Hope, where he has continued in active practice during the long intervening years and where his success has been on a parity with his recognized skill and professional loyalty. He gave fifteen years of constructive service as health officer of Hope, is at present county health commissioner, and in the World war period he was a member of the local advisory board, besides being otherwise zealous in furthering patriotic movements and services in his native county. The Doctor is now one of the veteran members of the Bartholomew County Medical Society and has membership also in the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In national and state relations he gives his allegiance to the Republican Party, but in local affairs he supports men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespective of strict partisan lines. He has passed the official chairs in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city. Doctor Reed married Miss Genevieve Ray, of Knox, Starke County, Indiana, and they have an adopted daughter, Barbara Gene, who is at the time of this writing a student in the public schools of Hope.