Reeve, Tapping Selah

Summary

Father: William Selah Reeve
Mother: Mabel Clair Voris

Birth: 3 Aug 1911, Colorado
Birth Source: SS Death Index

Death: 21 Jan 1999
Death Source: SS Death Index

Spouse1: Frances Quincy

Narrative

The Pittsburgh Press, 20 Apr 1932
By the United Press
Portland, Me., April 20 - Tapping S. Reeve, 20, of Detroit, Mich, Bowdoin College student, was believed dying today at State Street Hospital, Portland, his skull pierced by a javelin thrown in practice yesterday at the college athletic field.
College authorities withheld the name of the student who threw the javelin. Reeve's father, Will S. Reeve, prominent Detroit insurance man, chartered an airplane and flew here from that city, arriving at the hospital last night.
Students at Bowdoin said the youth ran a quarter-mile from the field to the college gymnasium with the javelin embedded in his head.At the gymnasium, they said, he succeeded in pulling out the javelin himself before he collapsed. College authorities refused to confirm these reports.

Tapping is buried in the Lakeside Cemetery, Casco, Cumberland County, Maine.

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          Social Security Death Index
Death:        Social Security Death Index

1920 Census:  Wayne County, Michigan
1930 Census:  Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
1940 Census:  Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan