Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....McReynolds, Jacob October 18, 1825 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 418, 419

JACOB McREYNOLDS
	This esteemed and worthy pioneer to the Pacific coast has wrought in 
various capacities from Sonoma county, California, to Umatilla county, Oregon, 
during more than one-half century, in which time he has ever been a promoter 
of civilization, and an ardent supporter of the free American institutions, 
which in early years received such opposition in these regions.
	He was born to Jacob and Christinia McReynolds, natives of North 
Carolina and Virginia, on October 18, 1825, in Smith county, Virginia.  When 
twelve years of age he went with his parents to Missouri, spending one year in 
Illinois on the way, traveling by horse team.  He was educated in Missouri and 
remained there until 1849, when he turned to the west and crossed the plains 
with ox teams to California, occupying himself in digging gold in Gold Run, 
near Grass Valley.  After one year at this work he went to Sonoma county, 
locating near Bloomfield, and engaging in farming and dairying on a farm of 
eight hundred acres, until 1886 when he came to Umatilla county to join his 
sons, remaining here continuously since.  He and sons own over one thousand 
acres on Camas prairie, where they follow general farming and stock raising.
	He was married in Lafayette county, Missouri, in April, 1852, to Miss 
Teletha Cooper, a native of that state, whose parents were natives of 
Shenandoah valley.  To them were born eight children: Frank W.; Lewis M.; 
Charles N.; Edward H.; Martha A., wife of W. Boynton; Hester, wife of Charles 
L. Gist; Alfred H.; Emma R., wife of Sylvan Upson, of Reno, Nevada.  All 
except the last are living on Camas Prairie.  His wife died in Sonoma county, 
October, 1869.
	When he first went to California, flour sold at thirty dollars per 
barrel, bacon seventy-five cents per pound and other things in proportion.  In 
1851 he made a trip back to the old home, via
the Isthmus and New York.  The following year he crossed the plains again, 
accompanied by his wife.  One since he crossed and recrossed the continent, 
making five times that he performed that journey.  During his time in 
California he was several times elected to fill public office, invariably 
discharging those duties with faithfulness and ability.  He is now enjoying 
the golden time of life, surrounded with his children, having also the 
substantial rewards of wise and industrious enterprise during a long life of 
unsullied reputation.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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