YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817
JARED REID, son of Samuel Reid, of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Preston, Connecticut, was born in Preston in February, 1788. He subsequently resided in Colchester, and spent the first two years of his college course in Middleburg College.
In 1819 he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where he spent three years. He was licensed to preach in April, 1822; and on October 8, 1823, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Old South Congregational Church in Reading, Massachusetts, where he remained until June 12, 1833.
He was married on November 27, 1823, to Sarah (or Sally), second daughter of Asa and Lydia (Newton) Bigelow, of Colchester, and sister of George N. Bigelow (Yale 1820).
Immediately on leaving Reading he began to supply the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, and in the next month he was called to the pastorate. He was installed there on September 4, 1833, and was dismissed on January 6, 1841, at his own request.
Later in 1841 he was installed in Tiverton, Rhode Island, where his ministry terminated, on account of ill health, in 1850.
His wife died in Tiverton on February 11, 1845, in her 58th year.
He died in Tiverton on June 17, 1854, in his 67th year.
His only child was graduated here in 1846.
— Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut, 1913), p. 25
(Information provided by FAG volunteer Sheron Smith-Savage (#46960440).
JARED REID, son of Samuel Reid, of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Preston, Connecticut, was born in Preston in February, 1788. He subsequently resided in Colchester, and spent the first two years of his college course in Middleburg College.
In 1819 he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where he spent three years. He was licensed to preach in April, 1822; and on October 8, 1823, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Old South Congregational Church in Reading, Massachusetts, where he remained until June 12, 1833.
He was married on November 27, 1823, to Sarah (or Sally), second daughter of Asa and Lydia (Newton) Bigelow, of Colchester, and sister of George N. Bigelow (Yale 1820).
Immediately on leaving Reading he began to supply the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, and in the next month he was called to the pastorate. He was installed there on September 4, 1833, and was dismissed on January 6, 1841, at his own request.
Later in 1841 he was installed in Tiverton, Rhode Island, where his ministry terminated, on account of ill health, in 1850.
His wife died in Tiverton on February 11, 1845, in her 58th year.
He died in Tiverton on June 17, 1854, in his 67th year.
His only child was graduated here in 1846.
— Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut, 1913), p. 25
(Information provided by FAG volunteer Sheron Smith-Savage (#46960440).
YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817
JARED REID, son of Samuel Reid, of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Preston, Connecticut, was born in Preston in February, 1788. He subsequently resided in Colchester, and spent the first two years of his college course in Middleburg College.
In 1819 he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where he spent three years. He was licensed to preach in April, 1822; and on October 8, 1823, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Old South Congregational Church in Reading, Massachusetts, where he remained until June 12, 1833.
He was married on November 27, 1823, to Sarah (or Sally), second daughter of Asa and Lydia (Newton) Bigelow, of Colchester, and sister of George N. Bigelow (Yale 1820).
Immediately on leaving Reading he began to supply the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, and in the next month he was called to the pastorate. He was installed there on September 4, 1833, and was dismissed on January 6, 1841, at his own request.
Later in 1841 he was installed in Tiverton, Rhode Island, where his ministry terminated, on account of ill health, in 1850.
His wife died in Tiverton on February 11, 1845, in her 58th year.
He died in Tiverton on June 17, 1854, in his 67th year.
His only child was graduated here in 1846.
— Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut, 1913), p. 25
(Information provided by FAG volunteer Sheron Smith-Savage (#46960440).
JARED REID, son of Samuel Reid, of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Preston, Connecticut, was born in Preston in February, 1788. He subsequently resided in Colchester, and spent the first two years of his college course in Middleburg College.
In 1819 he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where he spent three years. He was licensed to preach in April, 1822; and on October 8, 1823, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Old South Congregational Church in Reading, Massachusetts, where he remained until June 12, 1833.
He was married on November 27, 1823, to Sarah (or Sally), second daughter of Asa and Lydia (Newton) Bigelow, of Colchester, and sister of George N. Bigelow (Yale 1820).
Immediately on leaving Reading he began to supply the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, and in the next month he was called to the pastorate. He was installed there on September 4, 1833, and was dismissed on January 6, 1841, at his own request.
Later in 1841 he was installed in Tiverton, Rhode Island, where his ministry terminated, on account of ill health, in 1850.
His wife died in Tiverton on February 11, 1845, in her 58th year.
He died in Tiverton on June 17, 1854, in his 67th year.
His only child was graduated here in 1846.
— Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut, 1913), p. 25
(Information provided by FAG volunteer Sheron Smith-Savage (#46960440).
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