“ REED, JOSEPH (1741–1785) , American politician, was born in Trenton, New jersey, on the 27th of August 1741. He graduated at Princeton in 1757, studied law under Richard Stockton and, in 1763–65, at the Middle Temple, London, and practised in Trenton from 1765 until his removal to Philadelphia in 1770. ”

“ Reed (1808–1854) , graduated at the university of Pennsylvania in 1825, practised law in Philadelphia, and was assistant-professor of moral philosophy in the university of Pennsylvania in 1831–34 and professor of English literature and rhetoric there in 1835–54. ”