My Genealogy Hound

James H. Reynolds, one of the leading farmers and stock raisers, is a native of Madison County, Ill., where he was born in 1843. He is the second child of William B. and Mary Ann Reynolds, natives of Kentucky. [Account of parents given in sketch of Henry C. Reynolds.] Our subject was reared under the parental roof, and received his education at the common schools. When a lad of fourteen, while belting some of the machinery in his father’s mill, he was caught in the machinery and his right arm severed from his body. In 1863, in company with his father and older brother, he entered into mercantile life at Willmathsville, and afterward purchased the entire stock, and conducted the business on his own responsibility until 1879, when he sold the stock, and has since turned his attention to agriculture and stock raising. In 1870 he was united in marriage to Miss Lucy M. Garlinger, a native of Wisconsin. Three children have been born to them as follows: Milton J., Alvin and Carrie A. Mr. Reynolds is located about half a mile west of Willmathsville, and owns about 390 acres, the fruit of his own busy life. During his mercantile life he occupied the office of postmaster for twelve or fourteen years. He is a Republican, the first president he voted for being Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Reynolds’ father was one of the victims of the “Mountain Meadow Massacre.”