Reeve, Charles Howell

Summary

Father: Isaac Reeve
Mother: Harriett Howell

Birth: 15 Jan 1822, Oneida County, New York
Birth Source: Death Certificate

Death: 27 Dec 1904, Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana
Death Source: Death Certificate

Spouse1: Abigail Jane How, m. 26 Jan 1850, Marshall County, Indiana

Narrative

Children of Charles Howell Reeve and Abigail Jane How:

1. Anne L. Reeve, b. 25 Apr 1851
2. Ella Amelia Reeve, b. 24 Sep 1852, d. 27 Dec 1854
3. Charles Albert Reeve, b. 25 Dec 1855
4. Mabel Reeve, b. 22 Mar 1866, d. 18 Sep 1904

The South Bend Tribune, 28 Dec 1904
C. H. REEVE IS DEAD
PROMINENT RESIDENT OF PLYMOUTH, IND., PASSES AWAY.
Had Received From Czar of Russia a Modal for Notable Paper on Prison Reform.
Plymouth, Ind., Dec. 28. —Ex- State Senator Charles Howell Reeve, of this city, a well known lawyer, politician and writer, died last night. He was born in Oneida county, New York, Jan. 15, 1822, the grandson of Silas Reeve, one of the earliest Inhabitants of Orange county, that state, who, rather than take the oath of allegiance to the English crown, forfeited his property in Long Island, when it was taken by the British during the revolutionary war, and moved up the Hudson river to live among the Indians.
Mr. Reeve, with his parents, moved to Laporte, Ind., in 1838. He was mostly a self educated man. He possessed an extraordinary talent for music which he desired to make his profession, but his father being unable to afford the necessary education, the young man’s ambitions in that respect were not realised. At the age of 18 he entered the law office of Hon. John H. Bradley, of Laporte. He was admitted to the bar before becoming of age. He then went to Chicago and returning to Laporte later opened a law office. He also opened one In Valparaiso, Ind., but finding the profession not congenial entered the service of a wholesale dry good house In New York city. In 1845 he returned to Laporte and later came to Plymouth to practice law and lived here to the time of his death.
Mr. Reeve was a pronounced democrat and very earnest in the defense of his political convictions. He was elected prosecuting attorney In 1849 and was In the Indiana senate in 1877 and 1879. In 1849 he took a leading part in the organization of the Fort Wayne & Chicago railway, now a part of the Pennsylvania system, and was largely instrumental in securing the construction of the line through Marshall county. Mr. Reeve was an Odd Fellow. He was an agnostic and once preached the funeral oration over the body of a friend, this oration making conspicuous his peculiar views on religion. He had notable ideas regarding prison reform and had been presented a medal by the czar of Russia for a paper on that subject.
Mr. Reeve was married Jan. 30, 1850, to Miss Abbie J. Howe, eldest daughter of Isaac Howe, a pioneer of Marshall county. Two daughters and one son were born to the union.

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          Indiana Death Certificate, Charles H. Reeve, 1904
Marriage1:  Findagrave - Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019
Death:        Indiana Death Certificate, Charles H. Reeve, 1904
Burial:       Findagrave - Stringer Cemetery, Marshall County, Indiana

1850 Census:  Marshall County, Indiana
1860 Census:  Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana
1870 Census:  Center, Marshall County, Indiana
1880 Census:  Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana
1900 Census:  Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana

The South Bend Tribune, 28 Dec 1904