Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Reeder, William Augustus

Reeder, William Augustus, a Representative from Kansas; born near Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pa., August 28, 1849; moved with his parents to Ipava, Fulton County, Ill., in 1853; attended the public schools; taught school in Illinois 1863-1871; moved to Beloit, Mitchell County, Kans., in 1871; principal of the Beloit public schools 1871-1879; moved to Logan, Phillips County, Kans., in 1880 and engaged in banking; also interested in irrigation farming 1891-1901; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1911); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1911 and to Beverly Hills, Calif., in 1913, where he engaged in banking and in the real-estate business until 1926, when he retired from active business pursuits; died in Beverly Hills, Calif., on November 7, 1929; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Hollywood, Calif.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Reeder, William Augustus," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1726 1727. Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3WCBK88B58DTUM2.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Reeder, William Augustus." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1726, page 1727. Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3WCBK88B58DTUM2.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Reeder, William Augustus' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1726, pp.1727. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3WCBK88B58DTUM2.