Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Reno, John S. 1850 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

JOHN S. RENO.

In the conduct of farming and stock-raising interests, John S. Reno has acquired
a most comfortable competence. He is now pleasantly located in Agency, where he
has an attractive home. His birth occurred in Brown county, Indiana, June 1
1850, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Barriss) Reno, both of whom were
natives of Pennsylvania. Removing westward, they settled in Indiana when it was
largely a frontier region, and in 1855 they arrived in Wapello county, Iowa,
locating upon a farm in Pleasant township, where they remained until called to
the home beyond. The father, who was born in 1813, died December 21, 1883, and
the mother, who was born in 1825; passed away May 1, 1908. In their family were
twelve children, of whom seven are now living.

John S. Reno left home at the age of eighteen years. He then went west and for
seven years engaged in herding cattle and in kindred work. In 1877 he returned
to Wapello county, where he married and began farming on his own account,
purchasing a tract of land in Pleasant township, whereon he resided for several
years. Later he bought more land from time to time and now owns over seventeen
hundred acres in Wapello county, being one of its most extensive landowners. He
has always engaged in raising stock of all kinds and his carefully managed
business affairs and his judicious investments have in the course of time won
him a handsome fortune.

Mr. Reno was married on the 1st of March, 1877, to Miss Kate McGuire, who was
born in St. Clair county, Missouri, a daughter of R. C. and Sarah (Parrett)
McGuire, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Ohio. In an early day
they removed westward to Missouri and just prior to the Civil war came to Iowa.
Some time afterward they went to Oregon, and both passed away there. Mrs. Reno
is one of a family of six children, all of whom are yet living, and by her
marriage she became the mother of five children: Cloya, who died in infancy; Roy
and Clara, both deceased; Orpha, the wife of Frank Avery of Agency; and Myrtle,
who has also passed away. There are also six grandchildren: Myrtle, Ray J.,
Ralph N., Roy P., Jessie S. and Howard R. Avery.

Mr. and Mrs. Reno are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in his
political views he is a republican. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic
lodge at Agency and the Odd Fellows lodge, and in the latter has filled all of
the offices. He has ever been faithful and loyal to the teachings of those
organizations and to the faith which he professes, and his many sterling traits
of character have gained him the high regard of those with whom he has been
brought in contact.


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HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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