Benoni Reynolds

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Benoni Orrin Reynolds II (July 26, 1824 – January 19, 1911) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.

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Biography

Reynolds was born on July 26, 1824, in Sempronius, New York. [1] In 1848 he married Mary Jane Smith, one of Wisconsin's first female physicians. [2] He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1851, and moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1854. [3] During the American Civil War, Reynolds was a surgeon with the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of the Union Army. Reynolds died on January 19, 1911, in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. [2] [3] [4]

Political career

Reynolds was a member of the Assembly in 1876 and of the Senate from 1878 to 1879. Additionally, he was Mayor of Geneva, Wisconsin, from 1874 to 1876. He was a Republican.

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References

  1. Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin. 1879. p. 510. Retrieved April 16, 2024 via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 Gregory, John Goadby. 1932. Southeastern Wisconsin: A History of Old Milwaukee County, vol. 4. Chicago: S. J. Clarke, p. 473.
  3. 1 2 Beckwith, Albert Clayton (1912). History of Walworth County, Wisconsin. Vol. I. Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company. pp. 666–668. Retrieved April 16, 2024 via Google Books.
  4. "United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933", database with images, FamilySearch: accessed 28 July 2015, Benoni O Reynolds, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,635,906.