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JAMES C. REYNOLDS, of Hagar, Reynolds & Hottel, merchants and grain dealers, Sarcoxie, was born at Kanawha Falls, West Va., Feb. 20, 1844. His parents were also natives of West Va. When seven years of age our subject moved with his parents to Arkansas, locating in Independence county. There he grew to manhood, and engaged in agricultural pursuits and attended school. In the year 1853 his father, George W. Reynolds, died in that county. In the fall of 1863 our subject enlisted in Company A, Fourth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, and served about eight months, he was discharged at Devall’s Bluff, near Little Rock, because of physical disabilities. He then went to St. Clair county, Ill., and for a half decade engaged in farming near Mascoutah. He came to Missouri in 1868, locating in Lawrence county, three miles east of Sarcoxie. He remained there farming until the autumn of 1879, then came to Sarcoxie and engaged in his present business. Mr. Reynolds was married in Lawrence county, Mo., to Miss Emma K., daughter of R. Church, of Ohio. Mrs. R. was born in Lawrence county, Ohio, and died in this county Oct. 29, 1875, leaving one child, Harry S,, born Aug. 5, 1873. Our subject was again married March 2, 1879, to Miss Maggie S., daughter of T. J. Hammar, of Sarcoxie. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have a very pleasant home in Day’s addition, Sarcoxie. They also have an excellent farm of seventy acres, situated about three miles east of Sarcoxie, all in cultivation, good residence and other buildings, orchard, and yard set in shade and ornamental trees. Business in Sarcoxie, northeast corner of square. Mr. E. is a member of the I. O. O, F. and of the Masonic order.