Baldwin County AlArchives Biographies.....Samuel K. Reynolds 1836 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   SAMUEL K. REYNOLDS, physician and surgeon of Battles, Baldwin county, Ala.,
and resident physician of Hotel Grand, Point Clear, in the same county, was born
in Philadelphia in 1836. He received a thorough literary education ins his
native city and then began the study of medicine under Prof. Mutter, of
Jefferson Medical college, and after an attendance of six years graduated, in
1857, with first honors. The year following he was engaged in private practice,
and then engaged on a line of merchant vessels as surgeon-passing six months in
Europe. In 1859 he came to Alabama and practiced at Livingston, Sumter county,
until the spring of 1860, when he located in Mobile, conducting private practice
until the opening of the Civil war, when he was placed in charge of all the
Catholic institutions of the city as medical director, and until the close of
hostilities rendered very efficient service. He then resumed his private
practice in Mobile and so continued until 1889. He next located at his summer
residence in Battles, where he has since continued profession, in conjunction
with his position as resident physician at the Hotel Grand. He is recognized as
one of the most experienced and skillful practitioners in the county, and stands
equally high socially and professionally. The doctor was married in 1861 to Miss
Irma Amelia Herpin, daughter of John B. Herpin, a prominent dry goods merchant
of Mobile. Mrs. Reynolds was born in 1838, enjoyed excellent educational
advantages, and graduated from the convent of the Visitation. She has borne her
husband one child, now deceased. The doctor is himself the third of seven
children born to John and Marion W. (Stuart) Reynolds. The early days of the
father were passed in his native Ireland as clerk for a mercantile house, but he
was yet young when he came to America and settled in Philadelphia, where he
became one of that staid city's most prosperous merchants and where he was
summoned to his final rest in 1858. He was a Free Mason and in religion was a
Presbyterian. Mrs. Marion W. Reynolds was a native of Philadelphia, was highly
educated, and was married in the eighteenth year of her age. She became the
mother of seven children, all of whom reached maturity, but of whom two now
survive-the doctor and his sister, now Mrs. Joseph M. Pile, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Reynolds was of Scottish parentage, was also a member of the Presbyterian
church, and died in its faith in 1871. Dr. S. K. Reynolds and wife have been
identified with many charitable works at Mobile, and their generosity is not at
all stinted at their present place of residence. Both are devout members of the
Roman Catholic church, and stand very high socially.



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