Harry Reding, M. D., of Lawrence, was born in Haverhill, N. H., May 14, 1861, son of Henry Warren and Amelia (Chandler) Reding. His parents were natives of New Hampshire, where their respective families have resided for several generations. Dr. Reding is the only child of his parents. They came west in 1870, when he was nine years of age, and settled at Centralia, Kan., at which place Dr. Reding attended the public schools, from which he went to Washburn College, at Topeka, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1885. In 1888 the same institution conferred upon him the Master's degree. In the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, he graduated in medicine, in 1888, and his first location for practice was at Centralia, Kan., where he remained two years. Later he was at Vermillion two years, and then located at Sabetha, where he remained fifteen years, building up a large practice. In 1907 he located at Lawrence, where he has since limited his practice to the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is recognized widely among physicians as a man of the highest skill in his specialties. He has done much post-graduate work, being a post-graduate (1889) of the Post-Graduate School of Medicine at Chicago, besides having taken post-graduate work in several other noted institutions. He is a member of the Douglas County and Kansas State Medical societies and of the American Medical Association. He also holds membership in the Southwestern Medical Society. In politics he is a Democrat, but not a partisan. Fraternally he is a Thirty-second Scottish Rite Mason, and in church faith is a member of the Congregational church. Dr. Reding married, in 1888, Helen E. Sherrill, of Topeka. Four children have graced their home—Harry Warren, Mary G., Katherine P., and Franklin S.