Reed, Charles Harold, 1895-1971

Lawyer and defense attorney for Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield.

From the description of Note, June 30, 1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 747102886

Resident of New Brunswick and later Piscataway, N.J.

From the description of Papers, 1917-1919. (Rutgers University). WorldCat record id: 28416885

Soldier, bookstore owner, and insurance company president, of New Brunswick and Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey; graduated from Rutgers College, 1916; commissioned a second lieutenant, April 1917; received training at Fort Meyers and Camp Lee (Virginia), Camp Sevier (South Carolina), and Camp Dix (New Jersey); became an officer in Company M, 311th Regiment, 78th Division; commissioned a first lieutenant, January 1918; sailed with his battalion from Boston to England, May 1918, and arrived in France by June; spent two months in Pas de Calais before moving to the southeast with his battalion which then participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne campaigns; wounded while serving near Grandpre (Ardennes province), November 1, 1918; spent his remaining overseas months in hospitalization, treatment, and a recuperation on the Riviera; commissioned a captain, December 1918; sailed for the United States, March 1919; mustered out, May 1919; managed the New Brunswick book and stationery store of his father, which he subsequently purchased; served as president of the New Brunswick Mutual Fire Insurance Company; lived in New Brunswick until ca. 1952 when he moved to Piscataway Township.

From the description of Papers, 1917-1919 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122662381