My Genealogy Hound

HENRY REYNOLDS. Prominent in the business circles of Sinclairville is the well-known hardware merchant mentioned above, who has conducted his present establishment since 1870. Henry Reynolds is a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Smale) Reynolds, and was born in the suburbs of the village where he now lives on the 2d day of April, 1827. His parents were natives of “merry old England,” and his father, Abraham Reynolds, was a baker in the city of London. They left that metropolis of the world and came to the wilderness of the Empire State in 1819, and settled on what is now his farm near Sinclairville. Two of his daughters are yet living in England, and one son, George S., left home in 1849 and has not been heard of since 1850. Abraham Reynolds secured a farm and made a fine property of it. He died in 1853, aged seventy years.

Henry Reynolds was reared on the farm and followed that occupation until twenty-four years of age, securing a common school education at the district schools. At the age of twenty-four he entered the service of Alonzo Langworthy, a dry-goods dealer at Sinclairville, and remained with him six months and then accepted like employment with C. J. Allen and staid there two years. The succeeding two years were devoted to John Dewey, and in 1860 he took a trip to his father’s native land, but re-crossed the water in the spring of 1861, and again went back during the latter part of the same year and staid there one year. During the fall of 1862 he came to Sinclairville, and in 1863, ‘64 and ‘65 was supervisor of the town. During his term of office he speculated some in real estate at Dunkirk. The present business of Mr. Reynolds was inaugurated in 1870, in partnership with Richard Reed, and has been conducted with constantly increasing success ever since. Henry Reynolds inherited the old homestead and now owns it and other farms.

In 1867 he married Mrs. Helen (Kimball) Richmond, a daughter of Dr. Joseph E. Kimball, for many years a prominent physician of the town of Ellicott. Two children have come from the union of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds: Elizabeth M. and Elliott K. Henry Reynolds stands high in the estimation of his acquaintances as a man of integrity and honor.