DDS Harry Asa Reid (b. 30 May 1893, d. 05 Feb 1971)
Harry Asa Reid (son of Asa W. Reid and Annie Fridrick Eckensperger) was born 30 May 1893 in Buffalo, Eria Co., NY, US, and died 05 Feb 1971 in Sun City, Maricopa Co., AZ, US. He married (1) Mary Fidelia Gibson on 30 Sep 1916 in Wapello, Louisa Co., IA, US. He married (2) Alida Bertha Develde on 30 Sep 1933 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL, US.
Notes for Harry Asa Reid: BIO: Harry was born in Buffalo, NY, and moved west, (Alida says at age 6) with his family about 1899 to 1901. Could be Bloomington, Ill. first. Most of his schooling was in Washington, Iowa.
Harry Asa Reid's Social security Number: Address: 6939 S. Lowe Ave, Chicago, 21 IL; his no. was: 357-32-6038.
Dad and his younger brother Ralph (Jack) lived with the Young family of Washington after their mothers death in 1913. Auntie Young, a widow, had 2 daughters but took on the job of raising the 2 boys as well. I remember as a kid being with Dad in Washington, Iowa when he stopped to see dear little old, all bent over, Auntie Young.
When Dad was young man he sometimes went with his Dad in their wagon on horse buying trips. They lived and slept in the wagon, and fixed camp meals. Dad had many jobs as a young man, cook, barber, night disk clerk in hotel, and yard-man for rail road. He and another fellow went on the bum one summer and road the rods under the rail-road cars to get from one town to another. Mom and Dad were secretly married in 1916, and they both continued their schooling.
Alida Reid says Charles and Ellen loaned Harry money for Collage, and he paid them back. And that his first office was at 55th and Halsted St. in Chicago was near their home.
A War Department letter A.G. 201, dated 15 Dec 1917 states he was to be enlisted in the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps. and that this would permit him to continue his Dental studies at Chicago Collage of Dental Surgery.
A State of Illinois Milt. and Naval Dept. Special Order No. 211, Extract 4. dated, 28 Dec 1917. The following enlisted man Harry Reid, Co. K, 1st Infantry, is honorably discharged from the Illinois Reserve Militia, to enlist in the Army Medical Reserve Corp.
On 04 Jun 1918 Dad graduated from the Chicago College of Dental Surgery.
Dad enlisted in the Army on 04 Jan 1918 at Chicago, IL. His Ser. No. was 2678437.
A letter dated 06 Dec 1918 from Surgeon General of the Army explains that Dad's request for a commission as 1st Lieutenant in Dental Corps, was received to late as the War was over. But if he is accepted by the final Review Board, he will be commissioned in the Dental Reserve Corps, inactive status, ether before or after his discharge from military service. This letter was addressed to Dad at Dental Co. #1, Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
On 16 Dec 1918 he was honorably discharged from the Army Medical Department Dental Co. #1, with the rank of Private. He received a bronze Victory Button.
On 02 May 1922 Dad received a War Department letter addressed to 1st Lieut. Harry Asa Reid, Officers Reserve Corps, giving him a new serial number 0-117504.
Letters dated 1924 and 1925 appoint him Captain Dental Corps, of Army Officers Reserve.
After his military service Dad became associated with an established dentist in Chicago, till he could start his own practise.
Some time later he opened his first Dental office upstairs at the s.w. corner of 72nd and Halsted St. Polk's, 1928-1929 City Directory of Chicago, Ill., page 2545, list Dad: Reid, A., dentist, 7207 South Halsted, h. 7728 Normal.
About 1939 he moved to the n.e. corner of 69th and Halsted, above a drug store, and was at that location till he sold his practise.
For years Dad and Alida rented a flat in a two story apartment house at 69th and Lowe, 3 blocks from Dad's office on the south side of Chicago.
In about 1959 when Dad retired they moved to Scottsdale AZ. They had a home built and lived there abt. 10 yrs. In 1969 they bought and moved into a duplex at Sun City, AZ. and that's where they were living when he died 05 Feb 1971, buried 09 Feb 1971, at Green Acres Cem., Scottsdale, Maricopa Co., AZ, US . Alida stayed there a few years, and then moved to a retirement home on Glendale Ave in north west Phoenix.
He is listed in the Social Security Death Records.
More About Harry Asa Reid: Burial: 1971, Green Acres Cemetery, Maricopa Co, AZ, US. Fact 1: 09 Feb 1971, Green Acres Cem., Scotsdale, Maricopa Co., AZ, US.
More About Harry Asa Reid and Mary Fidelia Gibson: Marriage: 30 Sep 1916, Wapello, Louisa Co., IA, US.
More About Harry Asa Reid and Alida Bertha Develde: Marriage: 30 Sep 1933, Chicago, Cook Co., IL, US.
Children of Harry Asa Reid and Mary Fidelia Gibson are:
William Harry Reid, b. 17 Nov 1921, Chicago, Cook Co., IL, US, d. 18 Nov 1921, Chicago, Cook Co., IL, US.
DDS Harry Asa Reid (b. 30 May 1893, d. 05 Feb 1971)
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