David Reis

(Born ca. 1847, Germany)

In the late nineteenth century, David Reis was the largest employer in Milford. He had come there in 1882 to open a branch of a Baltimore canning company. Reis achieved great success in canning strawberries, peaches, blackberries, and tomatoes. When he died in 1903, the Peninsula News and Advertiser said Milford had sustained an almost irreparable loss. It called Reis an "upright and just man and the best business man of the community." He "always practiced the policy of aiding others to help themselves rather than giving alms."