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EDWARD ANDREW REID
Well known for his connection with
the business interests of Lodi, Edward Andrew Reid is the popular proprietor of
the Perrin Hotel on South Sacramento Street.
He became a citizen of Lodi in 1920, and has ever since been closely
identified with the commercial and civic growth of that town. He was born in Redding, California, October
6, 1878, a son of Edward Alexander and Artie (Salnave)
Reid. The father was born in Alabama and
crossed the plains to California in 1849, and worked awhile in the mines; then
he farmed a section of land where he raised cattle and hogs; later he sold his
ranch and went into the livery business in Redding, which he continued until
his death at the age of seventy-seven years.
The mother was a New Yorker by birth, and is still living at the age of
eighty-four years. Edward Andrew is the
only child of this pioneer couple and his education was gained in the public
schools of Redding and later on in a business college in Oakland. After his school days were over, he assisted
his father in the livery business in Redding and when his father died in 1902
he continued the business until he built a garage, which he conducted for two
years when he sold out and removed to Sacramento, where he became the
proprietor of two hotels, one on Seventh and I streets, and the other on
Fourteenth and J streets.
While residing in Sacramento, Mr.
Reid was married to Miss Ada Haskin, born at Granby, Missouri, a daughter of N.
W. and Martha Haskin. Mrs. Reid was four
years old when her parents removed to California and settled at Nevada City,
where her father worked in the mines and where she received her education. She is the eldest in a family of five
children, the others being: Thomas, Mrs.
Marie Appearson, Mrs. Ethel Gardner, and Mathew, who
died in 1921. Mr. and Mrs. Reid have an
adopted daughter, Ruth. In February,
1920, Mr. Reid removed to Lodi and leased the Hotel Imperial. This he operated until January 1, 1921, when
he entered into a five-year lease for the modern, forty-five room
Perrin Hotel, located on South Sacramento Street, where he is meeting with
deserved success. Mr. Reid is a
Republican in politics and fraternally is affiliated with the Odd Fellows at
Redding; he is a past grand of that lodge and is past president of the
Encampment at Redding; he is also a member of the N. S. G. W.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1542. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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