Samuel Reed, the pioneer hotel man of the "Center", was a native of Belmont county, Ohio, born October 15, 1807. He was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Whetmore/Reed,) and with his parents moved to Guernsey county Ohio in 1812. In 1839 he removed to Knox county, Ohio, but in 1842 returned to his former home, all this time being engaged in farming October, 1858, he came to Guthrie Center, and from the fall of 1859 until the middle of 1861, kept the hotel. He then engaged in farming, but in 1863 again took the hotel, which he ran until 1866. He was married in Ohio and had eleven children--Culbertson F., William A., Theodore P., Elizabeth A., Benjamin F., Hannah L., George W., James D., Hester A., Amanda M., and Mary E. He died on his farm near this place on the 6th of July, 1882. Obit in Guthrian
