REID, HUGH THOMPSON, soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 18, 1811, in Union county, Ind. In 1840-42 he was prosecuting attorney for Lee, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson and Van Buren counties, Iowa, holding high rank as a land lawyer. He was president for four years of the Des Moines Valley railroad. He entered the volunteer service as colonel of the fifteenth Iowa infantry in 1861; and was appointed brigadier-general in 1863. He died Aug. 21, 1874, in Keokuk, Iowa.
SOURCE: Thomas William Herringshaw, Editor, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia Of American Biography Of The Nineteenth Century, p. 779
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