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Below is a family biography included in History of Warren County, Iowa published by Union Historical Company in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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REYNOLDS, J. N., of Reynolds’ Bros, blacksmiths and wagon makers, Carlisle; was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1832; came to Iowa in 1857, and stopped at Davenport for one year, then went to Kankakee, Illinois, and remained till 1863, and returned to Pennsylvania and enlisted in Co. E, One hundred and eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, March, 1863, and was mustered out August 14th, 1865; participated in the battles of Coal Harbor, Reams’ Station, Deep Bottom and numerous skirmishes; he came to this place in the fall of 1874: was married in 1852 to Miss Mary O. Bartholomew, a native of Pennsylvania, who has since died and left three children; Ada C., Henry D., and Oras L; he married for his second wife Abitha D. Dinsmore, a native of Indiana, but raised in Jasper county, this State; they have three children; Corda C., Isaac N. Jr., and Lucretia.
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