Résumé

In 1900, Walter was a 22-year-old bookkeeper in his father's planing mill. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Oakland Ward 3, Alameda, California; Roll: 82; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0353; FHL microfilm: 1240082, accessed 03/22/2017.)

Partner, Dickey and Reed, Architects, Oakland, CA, c. 1903-1906.

Principal, Walter D. Reed, Architect, Oakland, CA, c. 1914.

Walter D. Reed enlisted in the US Army Reserves, as a Captain Adjutant, in the 115th Engineers Reserve Corps in 10/1917. (See American Architect, "The Architect in the War--San Francisco Chapter A.I.A.," vol. CXII, no. 2183, 10/24/1917, p. 310.) In 12/1917, the Architect and Engineer of California wrote of Reed's military career: “Mr. Walter Reed, Oakland architect, has been commissioned a member of General Pershing’s staff for immediate duty on the French firing line.” (See “With the Architects,” Architect and Engineer of California, vol. 51, no. 3, 12/1917, p. 107.)

(See “With the Architects,” Architect and Engineer of California, vol. 51, no. 3, 12/1917, p. 107.)

College

Graduate, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA, 1896.

Coursework, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1908. (See The Tech, "Technology Men in War Service," 12/13/1917, p. 4.)

Relocation

Walter D. Reed, Sr., was born in CA, in 1878.

In 1930, Walter Reed lived with his wife, son and a servant, James Chew (born c. 1912 in China who came to the US in 1925), in a grand residence at 3865 Lakeshore Avenue in the Lakeshore neighborhood of Oakland, CA. The house had a value of $25,000 according to the US Census of 1930, a large sum for the period. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Oakland, Alameda, California; Roll: 104; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0120; Image: 406.0; FHL microfilm: 2339839, accessed 03/22/2017.)

Reed was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA.

Parents

His father, Everett Lincoln Reed (c. 1846-1919), owned a planing mill in Oakland, CA, in 1900. In 1878, he worked as a mechanic in Alameda, CA, and ten years later, he was a mechanic in Arcata, CA, a lumber town in Humboldt County, CA. (See (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library, California History Section; Great Registers, 1866-1898; Collection Number: 4 - 2A; CSL Roll Number: 1; FHL Roll Number: 976447, accessed 03/22/2017 and Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library, California History Section; Great Registers, 1866-1898; Collection Number: 4 - 2A; CSL Roll Number: 15; FHL Roll Number: 976464, accessed 03/22/2017.)

Everett was about ten years older than his wife, Fannie Alice Hutchings (1856-1945), when they married c. 1875. Fannie maintained the household, that, in 1900, consisted of three children. Everett's family came from ME, while that of his mother hailed from IA. The 1900 US Census also recorded that Fannie and Everett had had four children, although only three survived in 1900. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Oakland Ward 3, Alameda, California; Roll: 82; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0353; FHL microfilm: 1240082, accessed 03/22/2017.)

Walter had a brother and sister, Fred Elroy Reed (1880-1966) and Maud Alice Reed Bells (1893-1975). Maude married Zura E. Bells on 07/01/1913 in Oakland, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, accessed 03/22/2017.)

Spouse

Walter Dickson Reed married a woman about five years younger than him, Dagmar Alexandria Johnson (1882-1962), on 02/24/1903 at the North Temescal Presbyterian Church, Oakland. Dagmar's parents, Kathrina Lorentzen (1842-1905) and James Johnson (1836-1898), came from Denmark. She was born in the small, agricultural town of Rio Vista, CA, in Solano County.

Children

He had a son, Walter D. Reed, Jr. (1913-1976).

Biographical Notes

Birth dates for Walter D. Reed, Sr., are not uniform.Find A Grave.com illustrated his headstone in Mountainview Cemetery, and it read 1877. Other sources indicated that it occurred in 02/1878.