Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Reynolds, William 1811 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

WILLIAM REYNOLDS.  This native of Scotia was born in Ayrshire April 12,1811, and
is now a resident of Dryden Township, Lapeer County. His father, William R., was
also a native of Ayrshire, and a carpenter by trade and died in his native home
when our subject was a little boy and he lost his mother, whose maiden name was
Mary Clendennen, at the age of twelve years. They left one son beside our
subject, Robert. After the death of the parents the boy was reared by his
grandfather, William Clendennen.

  Our subject came to America in 1831 when he was twenty years old, and while in
New York City he learned the trade of a weaver and afterward removed to Jersey
City, where he was united in marriage with Margaret Flemming, and there he
learned the trade of a carpet weaver. He carried on a manufacturing
establishment for the weaving of carpets at Piermont, N. Y., where fifteen looms
and twenty-four men were kept busy. After five years of successful work here the
establishment was burned down with no insurance on the stock and he lost some
$4,000, and he therefore entered the employ as foreman for Thomas Earl, of New
York City, a manufacturer of ingrain carpets.

  A year later Mr. Reynolds came to Dryden Township, this county, and bought
eighty acres of land in the woods, putting up a house and at once proceeding to
clear and improve the land. Nine children had crowned his first marriage,
namely: Thomas, now Postmaster at Thornville; Joseph, deceased; Joseph, 2nd.;
Sarah, wife of Peter Schonerman; Thomas J.; Robert, who fell in the service of
this country at Buzzard's Roost; Margaret J.; Zavit and Eliza. The mother of
these children died in Lapeer County, in 1860. The second marriage of our
subject was with Susan B. Suttin who died in 1889, being seventy-seven years
old, and he was married the third time April 20, 1890, to Mary Booth, a native
of England who was born at Market Wheaton, May 14, 1825. She was the widow of
William Booth and the mother of ten children by her first husband. These
children's names are: Hannah, Robert L., James V., Jane K., (wife of Andrew Laur
of Port Stanley); Richard, Eliza Ann, and Mary C. deceased, Jessie A. (now Mrs.
A. Manuel;) Elmer Ellsworth, and Frank A. a railroad man on the Bay City Railway.

  Mr. Reynolds has a farm of eighty acres upon which he carries on general
farming. In politics he is a strong Republican and he is pleased to note that
while his last Presidential vote was for President Harrison, his first was for
that gentleman's grandfather. He has been a worker in the Sunday-school and a
member of the Presbyterian Church, but is now a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and has ever been a liberal contributor to good causes. Mr.
Booth, Mrs. Reynold's first husband, was a native of England, where he was born
January 7, 1826. He was a Republican and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln
in 1860. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, and
died at the age of sixty-one.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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