CLIFTON REYNOLDS, Leeson's Hist. of MT 1739-1885, Jefferson Co., MT

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CLIFTON REYNOLDS - pg 1185

From Leeson's History of Montana 1739-1885 published 1885

SURNAMES FOUND IN THIS BIOGRAPHY: PETERSON; HAMB

Clifton Reynolds, proprietor of the Beaver Creek House, was born
at Pleasantville, Marion co., IA, September 3, 1852, and resided
until ten years old with his parents, Alonzo and Melissa
Reynolds. In 1862 he moved to Nebraska City, a thriving town in a
thriving Territory. The mountain land toward which so many were
going, and the charm of the wild life, offered too much to the
lad of twelve summers, and he started up the Platte river,
driving six yoke of cattle for a freighter. At Julesburg his
contract expired, and he refused to go farther with the train
because of the Indians being troublesome. Young Reynolds found
the realty of frontier life was anything but romantic. A mere lad
in a country that tried the hearts of the stoutest, he worked up
and down the river about five years, and then, true to the
feelings of a frontiersman, he turned his face mountainward, and
in 1869 came to Montana. The beautiful valley of the Platte
seemed transferred to the Gallatin and here he settled down and
became a farmer, though during certain seasons of the year he
engaged in freighting, and in 1876 located his present ranch on
Beaver creek. Since that time he has kept public house, and has
had one of the best stations on the road. The near completion of
the N. P. R. R. warned him that the palmy days of his business
were numbered, and he accumulated a herd of fine cattle, with the
view of engaging in stock raising. Mr. Reynolds married, February
4, 1876, Mrs. Julia Peterson, daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth
Hamb. One child of this marriage, Alice, born September 20, 1878,
deceased April 28, 1880. there are two children by Mrs. Reynolds'
first marriage.