Christian Reed Gudmundsen, Dentist, poet. Born in Iona in 1892, Reed
began his studies at Brigham Young University after finishing the Academy in
Rexburg, Idaho before going to Chicago to study dentistry. Returning to the West,
he set his practice up in Salt Lake City. I am not certain where or when he met
Margaret Andrews, an Idahoan from Rexburg, herself a dentist. Close family have
told me of visiting their offices in the Tribune Building on Main Street. In addition
to her practice, Margaret went into public schools to teach oral hygiene. They
married in 1921 in Salt Lake City.
I do not
know the projectory of Reed’s writing, whether it was life-long or a hobby that
developed as his scientific profession did. Eventually it resulted in enough
poems to be bound for limited circulation. I do not know if he had the
widespread activity that his sister Fanny Gudmundsen Brunt did.
As these children
of Isaac matured and aged, several migrated to California. Reed passed away in
Los Angeles in 1965, Margaret in San Mateo in 1978.
They had no
children.
Abraham
Stanley Gudmundsen, 21 -23 April 1896, Iona, Idaho.
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