Reid, James S.

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsCompany directorsHistoryThe second son of the Presbyterian minister James Reid and Eliza, daughter of James Smith, J.S. Reid was born in 1849. He migrated to Australia with his parents in 1863 where his father took up a post in Bowen, Queensland. Reid, in partnership with his brother William Douglas, made an early career of journalism, establishing newspapers in several Queensland mining centres and also in Wilcannia, N.S.W. Here the brothers first published a paper devoted to the pastoral interests of the district, and then, with the discovery of silver lead ore at Silverton, produced the Silver Age. Reid became one of the directors of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, and was also one of the prime movers in floating the Silverton Tramway Company, the Tarawingee Flux Company, the Emu Bay Railway Company, and the Chillagoe Company. He was the owner of two fine estates, "Rostrevor", in Magill, S.A., and "Duneira", Mount Macedon, Victoria. He married Martha Trumbull Ward in February 1883. They had a son, James Smith, and four surviving daughters. He died in January 1922.Search records of this agent

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Tarrawingee Banquet Menu

Tarrawingee Tramway Opening Programme

The Residence Rostrevor

"The Reids of Ramelton, Northern Ireland"

Accession

[1965.0014] Papers of James Smith Reid

Dates

Date1849-1922

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Given NameJamesMiddle NameSmithFamily NameReid

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Reid, James S.