Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Reynolds, Chauncey W 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Chauncey W. Reynolds, farmer, section 2, Mt. Pleasant Township, was born Nov. 
12, 1821, in Sudbury, Vt., and is the son of Allen and Lydia (Raymond) 
Reynolds. They were natives of Vermont, were married there, and there the 
mother died. The father died in the State of New York. Their children, three 
in number, were named Raymond A., Oliver L. and Chauncey W. The youngest child 
was brought up by his maternal grandfather, with whom he lived until he was 22 
years of age. For about five years after, he was occupied as a farm assistant, 
and about 1848 he became foreman of a saw-mill and filled the position seven 
years. In 1855 he came West to secure a broader and more hopeful field of 
operation, and spent one season in a saw-mill at Davenport, Iowa, after which 
he prospected in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. He decided that Whiteside County 
offered as much inducement as any other locality, and in October, 1857, he 
made a purchase of a claim which included 120 acres of unbroken prairie, 
situated in the townships of Mt. Pleasant and Clyde. His homestead buildings 
are in the township first named, and his entire amount of land includes 700 
acres, which is situated in the two townships and is practically all under 
tillage. Mr. Reynolds is identified with and supports the principles of the 
Democratic party. He formed a matrimonial union with Althea Dean Dec. 24, 
1856, in Kane Co., Ill., and they have five children,—Mary A., Walter D., 
Raymond A., Lydia L. and Chauncey W., Jr. The oldest daughter is the wife of 
Samuel McCune, and lives in Clyde Township. Mrs. Reynolds was born July 10, 
1833, in Putnam Co., N. Y., and is the daughter of S. A. and Delilah (Wright) 
Dean. The parents were natives of the same county where the daughter was born. 
They removed thence in 1846 to Kane Co., Ill., where the father died, in 
April, 1849. Late, in life the mother came to Whiteside County and became a 
member of the family of her daughter, and died at her home Dec. 2, 1882. She 
had been the mother of eight children,—Erastus, Althea, John, Ada, Robert R., 
Lewis, Marion and Smith A.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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