Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....McReynolds, Francis W. December 19, 1853 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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Francis W. McReynolds
	This representative and substantial citizen, whose life of enterprise 
and industry compled with integrity and good financiering, has been potent for 
advancement and upbuilding both in his native state and here, is accorded a 
place in these historical records, commensurate with his worthy achievements.
	He was born in Sonoma county, California, to Jacob and Telitha 
McReynolds, on December 19, 1853, being the first American child born in "Big 
Valley." He received his primary education in the common schools and completed 
it in Heald's Business College at San Francisco.  He was taken by his parents 
on a visit to their old home in Missouri when he was four years old, and it is 
of note that when they were returning to the coast the next year the mule 
train stuck in the mud at one point on the plains and our subject was 
determined to walk back to California. He followed dairying with his father 
until twenty-one years of age and then leased six hundred and fifty acres of 
land and commenced the same business for himself, which he followed for five 
years, then sold out and bought a stage line from Petalurna to Bodego Corners, 
which he operated for one and one-half years.  Selling this, he came to 
Umatilla county in 1881, homesteading a quarter-section on Camas prairie, 
later adding a one half-section by purchase and pre-emption.  Here he devoted 
his whole attention to dairying and stock raising with very flattering success 
until 1894, when he sold out, excepting a good bunch of stock, which he still 
handles, to accept the management of the Ukiah creamery, where he is now 
operating.  This plant is one of the leading ones of its kind in this part of 
the state, and a model in every respect, having all up-to-date machinery for 
the handling of milk and the manufacture of butter.  The output is over nine 
thousand pounds per month of a class of butter not to be surpassed anywhere in 
the United States. The creamery under the care of its excellent manager is 
kept most scrupulously neat by the latest scientific sanitary measures known 
to this business, while his geniality and courteousness to strangers make it a 
pleasure to inspect it.
	Mr. McReynolds was married in Santa Rosa, California, on January 12, 
1875, to Miss Lucy I. Boynton, a native of Clinton county, Iowa.  Her parents, 
Amos A. and Jeanette Boynton, were pioneers to California in 1858 and to this 
county in 1883.  Her father resides in Ukiah, her mother having died here in 
1898.  To Mr. and Mrs. McReynolds have been born the following children: 
Luella May, wife of George Spere, of Baker City; Francis R.; Myrtle L., wife 
of Clyde Gibson, of New Whatcom, Washington; Chester R.; Irma J.; Florence V.; 
Eva E.; I. Ward, all at home except the two married ones.  Our subject is the 
incumbent of two public offices and was census enumerator in 1900. He 
affiliates with the United Brethren church, the liberal branch, where he is 
highly esteemed.


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.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 


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