FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: REYNOLDS, Lieut. Col. A. W. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, page 311-312 with photo

        LIEUT. COL. A.W. REYNOLDS, a veteran of two wars, and one of the
prominent leaders in the Department of Ohio of the American Legion, has
been a resident of Columbus thrity-five years, and is head and proprietor
of a large plumbing establishment, a business with which he has been
identified practically ever since he located in this city.
        Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds was born at Birmingham, England, in
1870. However, members of the Reynolds family have been in Ohio for more
than 100 years, and Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds had many relatives in the
state when he came here.
        He was reared and received his early education in England, and in
1887, at the age of sixteen, came to Columbus, where he learned the
plumber's trade. He has been in the plumbing business and on its own
account since 1896. For twenty-one years his business headquarters were on
Parsons Avenue near Oak Street. In 1922 he moved to a commodious new plant
erected for his business, a substantial two-story brick, structure, at 684
Oak Street. As a dealer in plumber's supplies and plumbing contracts
Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds has handled a large share of the business in
that line in Columbus and vicinity. His business has been built up on
principles of strictly honorable dealing and satisfactory service.
        He had not been long in Columbus when in 1888 he enlisted as a
private in the old Fourteenth Ohio Regiment of the National Guard. When the
Spanish-American war came on ten years later he went into active service as
a first lieutenant of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In the National
Guard he rose to the rank of major. Early in 1917 Major Reynolds was called
to the Federal service individually in advance of the National Guard and
assigned to duty as construction quartermaster at Camp Sheridan,
Montgomery, Alabama. In the same capacity and with the rank of major he
went overseas in June, 1918, with the Thirty-seventh Division. His command
while in France was this division, and he was in service there until the
spring of 1919. He received his honorable discharge May 9, 1919, and
immediately resumed his connections with Ohio National Guard with the rank
of lieutenant-colonel, G-4, Thirty-seventh Division Headquarters.
        Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds is well known socially and in civic
affairs. He is a member of the chamber of commerce, Kiwanis Club, is a
republican, and is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member
of the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.