CLASS OF 1879

David Ramsay Reed died January 31 of pneumonia in Ely, Nevada, where he had been called on professional duties.

He was born in West Bridgewater, Mass., February 1, 1858, his parents being Charles and Mary (Carlisle) Reed. In College he was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

The first year after graduation he remained in Hanover as a student in the Thayer School. In 1880 he went to Ouray, Colo., and engaged in civil and mining engineering in partnership with his brother, Hubbard W. Reed '70. In 1900 he removed to Denver? which remained his home.

He had early taken mining engineering as his specialty, and was constantly engaged as consulting engineer and in the management of mines. In his branch of the profession he was considered one of the ablest men in the West, and had been engaged in the development of many of the largest mining properties in the country.

March 5, 1889, Mr. Reed was married to Minnie, daughter of Peter H. and Mary Anderson) Scott of Ouray, who died November 23, 1914. Their two children survive their parents, Charles H., a mining engineer in Paradise, Arizona, and Mildred S., who has lived with her father in Denver.

Mr. Reed was a Mason of the 32d degree.