Simeon Gannett Reed was an American businessman and entrepreneur in Oregon.
14 Facts About Amanda Reed
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Simeon Gannett Amanda Reed was born on April 23,1830, in East Abington, Massachusetts.
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Amanda Reed was born into a wealthy family and received his education at a private academy, graduating when he was 13 years old.
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When he was 22, he collected supplies to sell in California and sailed there, setting up a store in a tent in Sacramento, while Amanda Reed remained back east.
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Amanda Reed sold his goods and grain to the gold miners, but decided to relocate to what was then the Oregon Territory after a few trips there to purchase supplies.
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Late in 1852, Amanda Reed started a mercantile in Rainier, Oregon, along the Columbia River downstream from Portland.
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In 1854, Amanda sailed to San Francisco to reunite with Reed, and accompanied Caroline Ames Elliott, Ladd's sweetheart who he married in San Francisco.
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Amanda Reed held 128 shares in the company, which even during the economic depression of 1873 produced $300,000 in dividends.
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Amanda Reed built a mansion at First and Harrison streets in 1868, where the other wealthy residents were constructing large homes.
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Amanda Reed focused his energy now on meeting the demand for steel he anticipated due to Villard's Northern Pacific railroad.
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On November 7,1895, Simeon Amanda Reed died while in California at his retirement home.
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Amanda Reed died in 1904 without much progress towards Simeon's instructions.
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William M Ladd provided the lands on which the college stands today, and almost all of Reed's estate was passed on to the college, Reed having left no heirs.
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Simeon and Amanda Reed are buried near the family plot of Jacob Kamm in Portland's River View Cemetery.