Caroline G. Reed (Caroline Gallup), 1821-1914 was born in Berne, New York, and died in New York, New York. She moved with her family to Albany, New York, in 1932 and graduated from Albany Female Academy in 1839. In 1851 she married Sylvanus Reed, an Episcopal clergyman who became pastor of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Albany. They had four children, including Sylvanus Albert Reed, an engineer who invented the modern aircraft propeller. In 1862 they moved to New York City where Reed's husband served first as minister of St. George's Chapel and then as rector of the Church of the Holy Innocents. In 1864 Reed founded Mrs. Sylvanus Reed's English, French, and German Boarding School for Young Ladies, which was incorporated as Reed College in 1883. It was considered one of the most prestigious schools for women in New York at that time, and she taught and served as its principal until 1894. She also authored and published several papers and articles on the subject of education. In 1886 Reed invited M. Augusta De Forrest Brown, a medical doctor who had become one of Mary Baker Eddy's students, to give lectures at her college on the topic of health which included ideas from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In 1887 Reed asked Brown to give one of her daughters Christian Science treatment. Reed was a member of the American Geographical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames of America, and the Society of Mayflower Descendants. She also founded the Monmouth County Historical Society.

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