Arthur Middleton Reeves (1856 – 1891) was an American author and philologist, known for his work related to Icelandic and Old Norse studies.
Upon his return to the United States, he was tasked by his father to care for a farm of 5,000 acres (2,000 ha), which he called Grasmere.
The train, whose coupling rod had dropped, jumped the tracks near Hagerstown, Indiana, and the car Reeves was riding in was thrown down an embankment, breaking his neck.
[2] At the time of his death, Reeves was working with Valtýr Guðmundsson [is] on a translation of Laxdæla saga, of which only eighteen chapters had been completed.
[4] A 1904 bas-relief portrait of Reeves, created by Janet Scudder, hangs in the library's Historic Courtyard.