Joseph T. Reynolds

    Joseph T. Reynolds, farmer, Lancaster Township, is a native of Lancaster Township, Jefferson County; was born February 13, 1846, on a farm, and reared on a farm. He attended the common and high schools of the county.

    He was married in 1864 to Miss Harriet E. Bonnell, a native of Ohio, but a resident of this county at the time of the marriage. They have four living children, three boys and one girl: George W., Ruth C., Andrew F. and William L.

    Mr. Reynolds was elected Justice of the Peace in this township, in 1886, on the Republican ticket. He lives on a farm of 160 acres of good land, which is in a fine state of cultivation, lying at the edge of Dupont. His parents were William L. and Delilah (Johnson) Reynolds; mother a native of Kentucky; father a native of Vermont. He came to Indiana and located at Madison in 1813; when he first came there were only log cabins in the town.

    He drove the first dray in Madison. He entered one-half of the farm where his son now resides. He died in 1876, at the age of 73. His widow died in May, 1882.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.