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Victor Reynolds Of
the younger businessmen and farmers of Jasper County, none are more prominent
than Victor Reynolds, the subject of this brief review. Alert, genial and of
pleasing personality, he is a type of that sturdy American manhood which has
made Iowa one of the great states of the union.
He was born on January 22, 1873, in Vermilion County, Illinois, being the
son of John W. and Mary A. (Morgan) Reynolds, both natives of Illinois.
The father died April 4, 1892, at this age of fifty-seven years; the
mother still survives and lives in Newton, Iowa.
The father was born July 23, 1837, the mother on June 4, 1843. It
was in the fall of 1872 that Mr. Reynolds' father came from Illinois to Jasper
County with his family, buying one hundred acres where the homestead is now, and
forty acres more some fifteen years later, paying from twenty dollars to
twenty-five dollars per acre for same.
Here it was that he made his home until his death, following general
farming. He was at all times
a man of keen public spirit, and while very just, was very outspoken, always
taking a middle-of-the-road position upon any of the great moral or political
problems of his day. He enlisted as
a northern soldier in the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Illinois Volunteer
Infantry, serving as a good and efficient soldier until he was discharged on
account of ill health. He held many
public offices, being treasurer of the school board, a director of schools, and
upon occasions preached in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr.
Reynolds, the subject .of this sketch, is one of eight children, one, Dora M.,
dying in infancy; Alton; Ida, wife of Harry Van Epps, died in 1897; Luella,
deceased; Nellie, deceased; Foster, deceased. On
March 22, 1900, Victor Reynolds was united in marriage to Ada L. Simpson,
daughter of A. J. and Martha (Flaugh) Simpson.
She was born July 19, 1881, in Jasper County, Iowa.
Her father and mother are both living near Kellogg.
Mrs. Reynolds was one of four children, all of whom are living.
To Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have been born four children, all boys, named as
follows: Foster, born June 27, 1901; Paul, born December 16, 1903; Floyd L.,
born February 19, 1906; and Robert S., born May 17, 1910. Mr. Reynolds has always taken an active interest in politics and in the progressive movements of the times. He has been secretary of the school board of his Township for twelve years, which office he still holds. He has served five years as Township clerk. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Kellogg, and of the Grange at Buena Vista. Both Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school of Pleasant View Church for the past six years. In politics Mr. Reynolds is a stanch and outspoken Republican. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 968. |
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