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a full literary, classical, and scientific curriculum was arranged in four divisions, and the school henceforth took the name of Philomathean Collegiate Institute. The change was made at the suggestion and by the aid of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, and the or- ganization accomplished all that its friends expected. See Wilson, Prtsbyterian Historical Almanac, 1868, p. 365. (J. L. S.)
Reid, Joseph, a Presbyterian minister, was born in 1842, near Romeo; Mich. He was of Scotch parent- age and received a careful religious training. He was graduated at the Michigan University and received his theological training in Union Seminary. He was reg- ularly ordained, and went to Kansas to enter the mis- sionary field. At a place called Manhattan, and the re- gion around, lie spent five years of arduous toil, when he returned to Michigan, that he might be near his parents and comfort them in their feebleness. He remained in Michigan, preaching as opportunity permitted, and was looking forward to a settlement when he was attacked with a disease which ended his life. He died at Romeo in 1877, after a ministry of only seven years. (W. P. S.)
Reid, Thomas, a celebrated Scotch divine and metaphysician, was born at Strachan in 1710. He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and became its librarian, a position which be resigned in 1736. In 1737 he was presented by King's College, Aberdeen, to the living of New Machar, Aberdeenshire, and was ap- pointed professor of moral philosophy in the above- named college in 1752. In 1764 he succeeded Adam Smith as professor of moral philosophy in the Univer- sity of Glasgow, retiring in 1781. He died Oct. 7, 1796. He published, Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind (Edinb. 1819, 3 vols.8vo) : — Inquiry intothe Human Mind (Edinb. 1763 ; 5th ed. 1801, 8vo). These and numerous Essays, etc., were collected and published under the title of The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D., now folly Col- lected, etc. (6th ed. Edinb. 1863, 2 vols. 8vo). See Alli- bone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A utkors, s. v. See Scot- tish Philosophy.
Reid, William Shields, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in West Nottingham, Chester Co., Pa., April 21, 1778, and graduated with honor at Prince- ton College in 1802. He was then for about two years assistant teacher in an academy in Georgetown, D. C, afterwards in Shepherdstown, Va. ; then, about 1804, he became professor in Hampden Sidney College, and finally president of that college some two years later. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Winchester in the spring of 1806, and dissolved his connection with the college about eighteen months afterwards. In 1808 he settled at Lynchburg, Campbell Co., Va., where he opened a school for males as a means of support, and at the same time labored to build up a Presbyterian Church in the village. In this he succeeded, and was installed as pastor in 1822. Still, his principal field of labor was his school, which after a while became a boarding-school for young ladies, and stood first among similar institutions in Virginia. Here his labors for the good of his charge were crowned with distinguish- ed success. Having become incapacitated for public labor, he resigned his charge in 1848, and lived in re- tirement till his death, June 23, 1853. — Sprague, .1 nnuls ofthi Amer. Pu Ipit, iv, 388.
Reily, James Ross, a minister of the German Reformed Church, was born in Meyerstown, Lebanon Co., Pa., Oct. 31, 17.ss. He began his theological stud- ies with Dr. Becker, of Baltimore, Md., in 1809, was li- censed in 1812, and became pastor of churches in Ly- keu's Valley. Dauphin Co., Pa. In 1813 he was sent as an exploring missionary to North Carolina, after which he returned to his charge. He was called to Ha- gerstown, Md., in 1819; resigned in 1825, to accept the appointment of agent to go to Europe with a view of securing aid from the Reformed churches there lor the endowment of the Theological Seminary of the German
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Reformed Church and collecting books for ita library. In this he was successful, returning in November, 1826. He became pastor in York. Pa., in 1827. His health failing, he resigned in July, 1831. He now supported himself in a secular calling amid continued ill-health, and died .March 18, 184 I. Mr. Reily was a man of great energy and originality, and withal somewhat eccen- tric; in the pulpit he was grave, earnest, and more I ban ordinarily eloquent He preached in German and Eng- lish.
Reily, John, a minister in the Reformed Presby- terian Church, was born in Ireland about 1770, and came to this country when about seventeen. He engaged in teaching in Philadelphia and vicinity for Beveral years, but studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Special Presbytery at Philadelphia, May 24, 1809. He was taken on trial Aug. 15, 1812, ordained in 1813, and sent as missionary to South Carolina. Kentucky, and Ohio. He had not been long in South Carolina before he was installed as pastor of the united congregations of Beaver Dams and Wateree, where he labored with great acceptance and success until his death, August, 1820. Mr. Reily was a man of childlike simplicity, god- niy. singleness of purpose, and undaunted in- trepidity.- Sprague, Annals qfth* Amer. Pulpit, is, 60.