Lewis H. Reid (1825-1895) was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, and died in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University in 1847 and from Union Seminary in 1850. He married Maria L. Reid (b. Fuller) in 1851. Reid was a Presbyterian minister in Fayetteville and Syracuse, New York, and in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to Canaan, Connecticut, in 1874 to open a boarding school and subsequently headed boarding schools in Rye, New York, Lakeville, Connecticut, and Hartford, Connecticut. He published three volumes of sermons entitled Living for the Master, Believing and Doing, and Similitudes of Christ. Reid was acquainted with Susan H. Willard, of Lakeville, who corresponded with Mary Baker Eddy in 1886.

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