[1] When he was 22, he collected supplies to sell in California and sailed there, setting up a store in a tent in Sacramento, while Amanda remained back east.

[1] Reed sold his goods and grain to the gold miners, but decided to relocate to what was then the Oregon Territory after a few trips there to purchase supplies.

Reed focused his energy now on meeting the demand for steel he anticipated due to Villard's Northern Pacific railroad.

[2] His estate, worth millions of dollars, was left to Amanda, with instructions to use it to assist in the cultural and intellectual development of Portland.

Simeon and Amanda Reed are buried near the family plot of Jacob Kamm in Portland's River View Cemetery.