Chester Albert Reed

Tall (5 foot, 9 inches) and heavy built (140 pounds), he was a football player at school.

[1] In June 1900, he married Eva Mellisa Himes and they had a daughter Mertice Elaine (1902-1974).

In 1910 he published a book on Wild flowers east of the Rockies, dedicated to his daughter.

In 1902, along with his father, and with encouragement from Frank M. Chapman, he published a Color Key to North American Birds.

His collections of taxidermied specimens, nearly 468 representing 236 species were acquired for $1500 by Mrs Eliza D. Dodge in 1907 for the Worcester Natural History Society.