General Andrew Reid, of Rockbridge

One of their sons was General Andrew Reid, of Rockbridge, who married Magdalen McDowell, twin-sister of the first wife of Judge Caleb Wallace, and daughter of Judge Samuel McDowell and Mary McClung.

The Reid family was significant in the eighteenth and nineteenth century history of Rockbridge County. The papers include correspondence and business transactions of Andrew Reid (1751-1837) and his son, Samuel McDowell Reid (1790-1869). Both were Lexington businessmen and both served as Clerk of the Court of Rockbridge County. Samuel McDowell Reid was a fifty year member of the Board of Trustees of Washington College (1819-1869) and there are materials pertaining to the college throughout. Also in the collection are papers of James Jones White (1828-1893), longtime professor of Greek history and literature at Washington and Lee and leader of the Liberty Hall Volunteers in 1861. White was the son-in-law of Andrew Reid. For more information on White, a major figure in W&L's history, see Charles W. Turner, Old Zeus: Life and Letters (1860-1862) of James J. White (in our Faculty Publications collection). More material on the Reids and on White can be found in the Rockbridge Historical Society collection. (2)

Links

• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Andrew_Reid_%2812%29_

Sources

1. Fisher, Carleton Edward. Topical index to National Genealogical Society Quarterly, volumes 1-50, 1912-1962. (Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical Society Bookstore, c1964). Andrew Reid, Sr., b Feb. 2, 1757, d 1837, age 86.
2. RESOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY AND THE NEARBY AREA

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