ALBERT T. REID

ALBERT T. REID, artist-publisher, was born in Concordia, Kan., August 12, 1873. His father helped to lay out the town of Concordia, and was the first county clerk of Cloud county. He was a lawyer, a banker, and at one time owned the Republican-Expositor; so, in a way, his son inherited the "spell" of printer's ink. Albert T. Reid got his early newspaper training on the Kansas City Star. He was with the Chicago Record for a few months, and went from there to New York, with the Herald. He was on the art staff of Judge, and at the same time was drawing for other leading magazines.

Mr. Reid was married in Topeka, October 19, 1902, to Miss Vera Low, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Low.

In 1905 Mr. Reid started the Leavenworth Daily Post, which he still controls. In March, 1908, the company of which he is president purchased the Farmers Advocate, Topeka, and in December of that year this company purchased the Kansas Farmer and combined the two papers, retaining the name of Kansas Farmer.

Mr. Reid has always taken great interest in the agricultural interests of Kansas. He inaugurated and organized the plan which stopped the tremendous shipments of live stock from the Kansas farms to market, following the loss of corn crops and the dry season two years ago. He inaugurated and organized the Kansas Farmer Seed Wheat Club, which raised money to buy seed wheat for the farmers of eight western counties which had suffered a series of bad seasons. This movement, according to State Bank Commissioner Benson, produced over $1,250,000 worth of wheat for the markets of 1914. He planned and is carrying out the Kansas Farmer Dairy Club—a movement in which the banks of Kansas are cooperating in starting boys and girls into the profitable business of dairy farming. This plan has been most highly indorsed by the state bank commissioner, the State Banking Association, the people at the Agricultural College, Secretary J. C. Mohler, and officials from the Agricultural Department of Washington. He is president of the Standard Farm-paper Association; member of the board of trustees for the Topeka public library; president of the Kansas Commission to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

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