Biographical Sketch of Benjamin B. Reagan, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Benjamin B. Reagan was born in Sevier County, East Tennessee, in 1834,
and is the youngest child in the family of six born to Timothy and 
Barbara (Schultz) Reagan, both natives of East Tennessee, and of Irish
and German descent, respectively.  After the death of his first wife
Timothy Reagan married Martha Moore, by whom he had seven children.
Timothy Reagan was a farmer and blacksmith, and died at the age of
eighty-seven years.  At the age of four months Benjamin B. Reagan was
brought to Madison County, MO., by his parents, where he was reared on
a farm, receiving a limited education.  When twenty years old he was
employed to drive an ox team at a furnace, and has filled all the 
positions from that up to superintendent, there being no work about a
foundry that he does not thoroughly understand.  From 1854 to 1873 he
worked at Pilot Knob Furnace, and in 1875 was employed at the Midland
Blast Furnace as receiver of coal, being made wood-boss four years
later.  In 1881 he was promoted to the position of superintendent, 
which position he has since ably filled.  In 1861 he married Utica 
Kunkelman, and they have three daughters, viz.: Edith B., Mary M. and
Grace E.  Mrs. Reagan and the daughters are members of the Episcopal
Church.  In politics Mr. Reagan prefers the conservative policy.  He
is a Master Mason. 

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