Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Reynolds, John 1840 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JOHN REYNOLDS, a successful agriculturist and stock-raiser and esteemed citizen
of Priest Valley, Monterey county, California, is a native of London, England,
born November 24, 1840. He left the home of his birth and came to America when
quite young. His boyhood and youth were spent in Oneida county, New York, on a
farm near the city of Rome. At about fifteen years of age he went to Michigan
and commenced work for the Michigan Central Railroad Company, at Grass Lake,
Jackson county, where he remained until the breaking out of the late war.

  In 1862 Mr. Reynolds volunteered his service and was mustered into Company F,
Seventeenth Michigan Infantry, at Detroit, being immediately sent to the front.
He participated in the battles of South Mountain the following September, and
there received a gunshot in the left leg, and soon after, while lying on the
field of battle, was wounded in the left side by a bursting shell. On account of
disability, he was honorably discharged, in January, 1863, and has since been
granted a pension.

  Returning to Michigan, Mr. Reynolds resumed his connection with the service of
the Michigan Central Railroad Company, acting as station and ticket agent at
Grass Lake He came to California in April, 1868, via Panama, and the following
May, through the agency of a friend, located on his present estate in Priest
Valley, being among the first in the valley to make permanent settlement.

  Mr. Reynolds married, in Washtenaw county, Michigan, Miss Ada H., daughter of
John W. Green, a Michigan pioneer. Of their four children, Arthur E. is the
first white child born in Priest Valley, the date of his birth occurring July
29, 1870. Mr. Reynolds is wide and favorably known in San Benito and Monterey
counties as a discreet and prosperous business man.


Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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