"Mary Dean Johnson was born on October 8, 1875, also in Ohio. After traveling to Colorado sometime in the late 1880s, she met Verner Z. Reed in Colorado Springs. They married in July 1893; he was 30 years old, she was 18. Little of their life together is known. When Verner died in 1919, Mary was called the "Richest Widow in Colorado."
Mary Dean Reed was involved in a number of organizations and causes in her life, including the women's rights movement in the late teens and early twenties. She served on the state executive committee of the National Woman's Party, a radical group that used confrontation and action to campaign for woman suffrage at the federal level rather than the state or local levels. After winning the right to vote, the group shifted its focus to the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment. She also was extensively involved in supporting health care and education related causes throughout her life. She funded the construction of the Margery Reed Mayo Child Care Center in Denver in 1926. According to an article in the Denver Catholic Register, "Mary Reed crisscrossed the country in 1924 and 1925, visiting various child care facilities. She used the most advanced ideas to build her idea of a modern nursery. The center was built to serve primarily the children of low-income, working families." (This center is still in existence.)"
COLORADO STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES at http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/
default/files/files/OAHP/NRSR/5EP647.pdf)
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Mary Reed was the widow of entrepreneur Verner Z. Reed, who opened several Cripple Creek mines and developed the Salt Creek oil fields in Wyoming, still that state's largest and most productive. The Denver Post once cited her as "Colorado's richest widow."
http://www.archden.org/dcr/archive/
20010418/2001041817ln.htm
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Joseph Verner Reed's father Verner Zevola Reed was a renowned attorney, real estate broker, stock broker, promoter, mine owner and a novelist. Verner Zevola Reed was born 10-13-1863 in Richland County, Ohio, and died 4-20-1919 in Coronado, California. He was the son of Hugh Fulton Reed born in 1834 in Richland County, Ohio, and Elizabeth Amanda Wolfe born in 1838 in Ohio. Verner Zevola Reed married Mary Dean Johnson in 1893. She was born in 1873 in Ohio and died in 1945. Verner Zevola Reed and Mary Dean (Johnson) Reed had 3 children-Margery Verner Reed born in 1894 in Colorado, Verner Zevola Reed Jr, born 8-30, 1900 in Colorado, died 8-1-1986 in Palm Beach Co. Florida, and Joseph Verner Reed born in 1902 in Paris, France, and died in 1973.
Source: Westfall Genealogy. http://w-westfall.tripod.com/
relfam7b.html
Mary Dean Reed was involved in a number of organizations and causes in her life, including the women's rights movement in the late teens and early twenties. She served on the state executive committee of the National Woman's Party, a radical group that used confrontation and action to campaign for woman suffrage at the federal level rather than the state or local levels. After winning the right to vote, the group shifted its focus to the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment. She also was extensively involved in supporting health care and education related causes throughout her life. She funded the construction of the Margery Reed Mayo Child Care Center in Denver in 1926. According to an article in the Denver Catholic Register, "Mary Reed crisscrossed the country in 1924 and 1925, visiting various child care facilities. She used the most advanced ideas to build her idea of a modern nursery. The center was built to serve primarily the children of low-income, working families." (This center is still in existence.)"
COLORADO STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES at http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/
default/files/files/OAHP/NRSR/5EP647.pdf)
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Mary Reed was the widow of entrepreneur Verner Z. Reed, who opened several Cripple Creek mines and developed the Salt Creek oil fields in Wyoming, still that state's largest and most productive. The Denver Post once cited her as "Colorado's richest widow."
http://www.archden.org/dcr/archive/
20010418/2001041817ln.htm
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Joseph Verner Reed's father Verner Zevola Reed was a renowned attorney, real estate broker, stock broker, promoter, mine owner and a novelist. Verner Zevola Reed was born 10-13-1863 in Richland County, Ohio, and died 4-20-1919 in Coronado, California. He was the son of Hugh Fulton Reed born in 1834 in Richland County, Ohio, and Elizabeth Amanda Wolfe born in 1838 in Ohio. Verner Zevola Reed married Mary Dean Johnson in 1893. She was born in 1873 in Ohio and died in 1945. Verner Zevola Reed and Mary Dean (Johnson) Reed had 3 children-Margery Verner Reed born in 1894 in Colorado, Verner Zevola Reed Jr, born 8-30, 1900 in Colorado, died 8-1-1986 in Palm Beach Co. Florida, and Joseph Verner Reed born in 1902 in Paris, France, and died in 1973.
Source: Westfall Genealogy. http://w-westfall.tripod.com/
relfam7b.html
"Mary Dean Johnson was born on October 8, 1875, also in Ohio. After traveling to Colorado sometime in the late 1880s, she met Verner Z. Reed in Colorado Springs. They married in July 1893; he was 30 years old, she was 18. Little of their life together is known. When Verner died in 1919, Mary was called the "Richest Widow in Colorado."
Mary Dean Reed was involved in a number of organizations and causes in her life, including the women's rights movement in the late teens and early twenties. She served on the state executive committee of the National Woman's Party, a radical group that used confrontation and action to campaign for woman suffrage at the federal level rather than the state or local levels. After winning the right to vote, the group shifted its focus to the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment. She also was extensively involved in supporting health care and education related causes throughout her life. She funded the construction of the Margery Reed Mayo Child Care Center in Denver in 1926. According to an article in the Denver Catholic Register, "Mary Reed crisscrossed the country in 1924 and 1925, visiting various child care facilities. She used the most advanced ideas to build her idea of a modern nursery. The center was built to serve primarily the children of low-income, working families." (This center is still in existence.)"
COLORADO STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES at http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/
default/files/files/OAHP/NRSR/5EP647.pdf)
- - -
Mary Reed was the widow of entrepreneur Verner Z. Reed, who opened several Cripple Creek mines and developed the Salt Creek oil fields in Wyoming, still that state's largest and most productive. The Denver Post once cited her as "Colorado's richest widow."
http://www.archden.org/dcr/archive/
20010418/2001041817ln.htm
- - -
Joseph Verner Reed's father Verner Zevola Reed was a renowned attorney, real estate broker, stock broker, promoter, mine owner and a novelist. Verner Zevola Reed was born 10-13-1863 in Richland County, Ohio, and died 4-20-1919 in Coronado, California. He was the son of Hugh Fulton Reed born in 1834 in Richland County, Ohio, and Elizabeth Amanda Wolfe born in 1838 in Ohio. Verner Zevola Reed married Mary Dean Johnson in 1893. She was born in 1873 in Ohio and died in 1945. Verner Zevola Reed and Mary Dean (Johnson) Reed had 3 children-Margery Verner Reed born in 1894 in Colorado, Verner Zevola Reed Jr, born 8-30, 1900 in Colorado, died 8-1-1986 in Palm Beach Co. Florida, and Joseph Verner Reed born in 1902 in Paris, France, and died in 1973.
Source: Westfall Genealogy. http://w-westfall.tripod.com/
relfam7b.html
Mary Dean Reed was involved in a number of organizations and causes in her life, including the women's rights movement in the late teens and early twenties. She served on the state executive committee of the National Woman's Party, a radical group that used confrontation and action to campaign for woman suffrage at the federal level rather than the state or local levels. After winning the right to vote, the group shifted its focus to the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment. She also was extensively involved in supporting health care and education related causes throughout her life. She funded the construction of the Margery Reed Mayo Child Care Center in Denver in 1926. According to an article in the Denver Catholic Register, "Mary Reed crisscrossed the country in 1924 and 1925, visiting various child care facilities. She used the most advanced ideas to build her idea of a modern nursery. The center was built to serve primarily the children of low-income, working families." (This center is still in existence.)"
COLORADO STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES at http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/
default/files/files/OAHP/NRSR/5EP647.pdf)
- - -
Mary Reed was the widow of entrepreneur Verner Z. Reed, who opened several Cripple Creek mines and developed the Salt Creek oil fields in Wyoming, still that state's largest and most productive. The Denver Post once cited her as "Colorado's richest widow."
http://www.archden.org/dcr/archive/
20010418/2001041817ln.htm
- - -
Joseph Verner Reed's father Verner Zevola Reed was a renowned attorney, real estate broker, stock broker, promoter, mine owner and a novelist. Verner Zevola Reed was born 10-13-1863 in Richland County, Ohio, and died 4-20-1919 in Coronado, California. He was the son of Hugh Fulton Reed born in 1834 in Richland County, Ohio, and Elizabeth Amanda Wolfe born in 1838 in Ohio. Verner Zevola Reed married Mary Dean Johnson in 1893. She was born in 1873 in Ohio and died in 1945. Verner Zevola Reed and Mary Dean (Johnson) Reed had 3 children-Margery Verner Reed born in 1894 in Colorado, Verner Zevola Reed Jr, born 8-30, 1900 in Colorado, died 8-1-1986 in Palm Beach Co. Florida, and Joseph Verner Reed born in 1902 in Paris, France, and died in 1973.
Source: Westfall Genealogy. http://w-westfall.tripod.com/
relfam7b.html
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