Stephen Reed (September 26, 1801 – July 12, 1877) was an American physician, newspaper publisher and geologist.
After two or three years spent in teaching school and in studying medicine, he established himself as a physician in Goshen, Connecticut.
Finding the exposure to the severity of the weather too much for his rather delicate constitution, he gave up his profession in about 1837 and opened a boarding school for boys in Richmond.
[1] Reed afterwards sold his share in the warehouse and spent the rest of his life in Pittsfield, at leisure for his favorite study, geology.
His name became well known in connection with geological discoveries in western New England, mainly through his account of a long train of boulders across part of Central Berkshire.