{"id":12,"date":"2020-04-13T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2020-09-17T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:31:36","slug":"the-reeve-bequest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/the-reeve-bequest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reeve Bequest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Charles McCormick Reeve (1847-1947)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reeve-Image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reeve-Image.png 519w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reeve-Image-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reeve-Image-1x1.png 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in New York to a prominent military family, Reeve attended Yale and joined its 1870 College Scientific Expedition traveling the American West in the company of William (Buffalo Bill) Cody.&nbsp; Soon after, Reeve settled in Minnesota and became the operator of a grain mill in Lake Minnetonka.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the late 1880\u2019s, Reeve traveled extensively across the globe.&nbsp; Upon his return home in 1890, Reeve was elected to the Minnesota state legislature.&nbsp; Reeve served Relief Commissioner from Minnesota and Nebraska for Great Famine of 1892 (Russia).&nbsp; In this office, Reeve undertook a diplomatic relief mission that included visits to Germany, Prussia, and Russia.&nbsp; Reeve shared the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century proclivity for obtaining small fragments of monuments as souvenirs of his travels, a practice aided by his status as a high-profile visitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reeve served as Colonel of the 13th Minnesota Volunteers, a unit that was the first to enter the city of Manila in the Philippines.&nbsp; Reeve\u2019s heroism in the battle led to his promotion to Brigadier General and Deputy Provost Marshal.&nbsp; In these posts he governed Manila while under American occupation.&nbsp; In retirement, Reeve split his time between Lake Minnetonka and Winter Park, where he developed a friendship with Rollins\u2019 President Hamilton Holt.&nbsp; Upon his death in 1947, Reeve bequeathed the memorabilia of his travels to the Baker Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles McCormick Reeve (1847-1947) Born in New York to a prominent military family, Reeve attended Yale and joined its 1870 College Scientific Expedition traveling the American West in the company of William (Buffalo Bill) Cody.&nbsp; Soon after, Reeve settled in Minnesota and became the operator of a grain mill in Lake Minnetonka.&nbsp; During the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/bakermuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}