Background
Reed, Frank Hynes was born on January 12, 1890 in Carroll County, Indiana, United States. Son of Jacob A. and Effie Alice (Hynes) Reed.
Reed, Frank Hynes was born on January 12, 1890 in Carroll County, Indiana, United States. Son of Jacob A. and Effie Alice (Hynes) Reed.
Bachelor of Arts, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1911. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Chicago, 1917.
Instructor in chemistry, Wabash College, 1913-1914, Michigan State College, 1914-1915, chemist Sherwin-Williams Company, Chicago, 1917-1919, Butterworth-Judson Corporation, Newark, New Jersey, 1919-1922. Superintendent chemical plant Tower Manufacturing Company, Newark, New Jersey, 1922-1927. Chemist Chemical Dye & Manufacturing Company, Springfield, New Jersey, 1927-1928.
Plant supervisor National Aniline & Chemical Company, Buffalo, New York, 1928-1930.
Chemist Roessler & Hoslacher Chemical Company, Niagara Falls, New York, 1930-1931. Chief chemist in mineral industries research, coal chemistry, et cetera, Illinois Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois, since 1931.
Consultant, National Defense Research Committee, 1942-1943, War Production Board, 1943-1945, science consultant, Federal Economics Administration, Northwest Europe, 1945. Visiting expert to General MacArthur’s headquarters, Tokyo, December 1948-February 1949.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Chemical Society (chairman gas and fuel division 1939, chairman University of Illinois section 1946-1947), American Institute Mining and Metal. Engineers (secretary-treasurer industrial minerals division 1939-1940.
Member sectional commission on classification of North. American Coals since 1933), National.
Club: Urbana Golf and Country.
Married Helen Louise Kennedy, October 27, 1917 (died April. Married second, Frances Elizabeth Brown, August 24, 1946. Children: Sherman Kennedy, Mary-Alice (Mistress Robert L. Sutherland).