When Byron Sedgefield Reid was born on 24 June 1882, in Waweig, Saint Croix, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Samuel Reid, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Lowther, was 31. He married Amy Marie Draper in 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Big River Township, Jefferson, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1936. He died on 2 December 1936, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1890: Big Horn, Wyoming Territory, United States 1897: Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.
The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
Scottish: variant of Reed , of which Reid is the common modern Scots spelling.
History: Samuel Chester Reid (1783–1861), the sea captain who designed the stars and stripes form of the present the American flag, was born at Norwich, CT. His father, Lt. John Reid, a former British naval officer of a distinguished Glasgow family, had resigned his commission and joined the cause of the American Revolution.
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