Records of Jim Reed on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jim Reed and the Reed Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Reed Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Reed family tree.

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Jim Reed (coach)

James J. "Jimmy" Reed was an American wrestling, football and soccer player and coach. He served as head coach of the United States men's national soccer team from 1959 until 1961, finishing with a record of 0–3–1.

Reed graduated from Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended Lehigh University in Bethlehem from 1923 to 1927. He spent four seasons on the school's wrestling team and three on the soccer team. In 1928, he was selected as an alternate for the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team. In 1929, he became the assistant wrestling coach at Princeton University. In September 1934, he replaced Clarence Foster as head coach, a position he held until 1963. He compiled a 109–106–14 record as wrestling coach. In 1938, Reed became the head soccer coach at Princeton. When he stepped down in 1966, he had compiled a 136–95–29 record. In 1955, the National Wrestling Coaches Association awarded Reed its 25 Years of Service Award. In the 1950s, Reed also became a part-time wrestling coach at the Hun School of Princeton. After retiring from Princeton in 1969, he became a full-time wrestling and soccer coach at the school. In 2007, the Hun School inducted Reed into its Athletic Hall of Fame.

During his life, Reed held numerous positions in various athletic associations. He was the 1938 and 1947 President of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association. In 1942, he served as the president of the American Wrestling Coaches Association and was chairman of the NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee from 1949 to 1950. In 1952, Reed spent a year as the chairman of the NCAA Soccer Rules Committee. From 1960 to 1963, he was the secretary-treasurer of the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association. In 1962, Reed was the president of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. In 1971, the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association inducted Reed into its Hall of Fame. In 1972, the NSCAA presented Reed with its Honor Award.

Reed also played for the Bethlehem Panthers, an early American football team.

Source: Jim Reed (coach), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Jim Reed (outlaw)

Jim Reed (1845-1874) was a member of the Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War, along with the James brothers (Jesse and Frank James) and the Youngers (Jim, John, Bob and Cole). He was killed by a law officer in Paris, Texas in 1874.

Belle Starr fought with his brother John Allison Bud when she met her sweetheart Jim Reed when his family moved to Texas. They met after a bank robbery in Missouri in 1866. They got married on 1 November 1866 in Collin County, Texas. Then they ran away to Missouri and she became his common-law wife. They had a child in 1868 they named Rosie Lee but the couple broke up when Reed met another woman named Rosa McCommas.

Jim Reed appears in the videogame Call of Juarez: Gunslinger (2013), where he is revenged by Silas Greaves.

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Other names that sound a bit like Reed

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