He was born on August 31, 1887, in
Philadelphia to Josephine Elizabeth Myers and Marshall Earl Reid Sr. On May 4, 1912, he started from
Hempstead, Long Island intending to fly to
Philadelphia. Near
Elizabeth, New Jersey, his biplane crashed but Reid and his passenger
George William Beatty crash-landed without injury. On October 11, 1912, he and
Henry Croskey Mustin, his
brother-in-law (his sister Helen R. Reid Mustin's husband's brother), flew from
Cape May Point, New Jersey. On June 8, 1912, he was able to travel from
Staten Island to
Trenton, New Jersey, at 75 miles per hour. He died on December 5, 1955, at his home in
Baltimore, Maryland. ==References==