Wiley R. Reynolds^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1818 - 1902  (84 years)

• Name	Wiley R. Reynolds
  	Has multiple wives
  Born	11 Jul 1818	Essex Co., NY
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Oct 1902	Jackson Co., Michigan
  Person ID	I19005	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	22 Sep 2017

  
  

  Father	Jesse Reynolds,   b. 15 Sep 1793, Dutchess County, New York ,   d. 10 Dec 1853, New York  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Sarah Jane Sheldon,   b. 6 Sep 1794,   d. 20 Jul 1851  (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F7054	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary H. Terry,   b. 1824, NY ,   d. 1863, Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio  (Age 39 years)
  Married	15 Mar 1842	Jackson Co., Michigan
  Children	+ 1. Charles Louis Reynolds,   b. 29 Mar 1851, Jackson County, MIchigan ,   d. 5 Jul 1938, Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio Plot: Section 40  (Age 87 years)
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2017
  Family ID	F7040	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Hartigan,   b. 11 Dec 1853, New York ,   d. 18 May 1922, Jackson County, Michigan  (Age 68 years)
  Married	4 Oct 1877	Jackson County, Michigan
  Last Modified	22 Sep 2017
  Family ID	F7053	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents		Death Certificate-Wiley Richard Reynolds wileyrreynolds.jpg
  		Marriage Record-Wiley Richard Reynolds to Mary T. Warner warner-reynolds.jpg

  
  

• Sources

  [S100] Internet Source, http://www.historic-woodlawn.com/reynolds-family.html. Reynolds Family Sheldon Clark Reynolds and William B. Reynolds The Reynolds brothers success in the grain market and in banking made them one of Toledo's prominent families. The first Reynolds who was a leader in Toledo business was Sheldon Clark Reynolds. Known as Colonel S. C. Reynolds, he was born November 19, 1835. His brothers, Wiley R. and William B. Reynolds had formed a general dry goods business in Jackson, Michigan. When S.C. was sixteen he joined the firm as a clerk and three years later bought out Wiley's interest. A year later, in 1855, William transferred his interest in the company to Wiley. For the next fourteen years the firm was known as W. R. and S. C. Reynolds. In 1869 the business moved from Jackson to Toledo where it changed its name to Reynolds Brothers. In Toledo the partners bought the Armanda flouring mills which became prosperous. Three years later William sold his share of the company to his two brothers. The Reynolds Brothers sold the flouring mills in 1875 when they entered the grain commission business. At that time Wiley's son Charles became a partner in the firm. In 1875 the Reynolds Brothers handled 2,000 carloads of grain, but by 1885 they were carrying 85,000 carloads a year. A large part of their success was due to the fact that S. C. Reynolds was the first grain dealer to bring wheat west of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. In the year 1885 they were the largest firm of their kind in the United States. S. C. Reynolds was a leader in creating the produce exchange and was its largest stockholder. S. C. Reynolds eventually became involved in transportation and banking. He was at one time the president of First National Bank and was chairman of the board of directors until his death. [John M. Killits, ed. Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, 1623-1923, vol. 3 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923), p.542]. He also sat on the board of directors of the Toledo Savings Bank and Trust Company. S. C. Reynolds was the director of several railroads including the Wabash, Hocking Valley, and the Kanawha and Michigan. He was president of the Lake Erie Transportation Corporation and one of the transport companys major ships bore his name. [Charles S. Van Tassel, ed., Story of the Maumee Valley, Toledo and the Sandusky Region, vol. 4 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1929), p.625]. Eventually his interests in banking and transportation became so important that the Reynolds Brothers company disbanded in 1908. (Winter, History of Northwest Ohio, vol. 2). S.C. Reynolds was married to Martha and they were the parents of four children. He died on November 22, 1912. (Killits, vol. 3, p.535). Charles Louis Reynolds (66-40) was the nephew of S.C. He was born in Jackson, Michigan on March 29, 1851. In 1875, after completing college, he joined Reynolds Brothers. In 1886, he became involved in directing the Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company. Twenty years later he was made president of the bank. He was, in addition, a director and one of the largest stockholders of the Second National Bank. Eventually both banks merged with the Toledo Trust Co. And Reynolds became vice-chairman of the board at Toledo Trust after the merger. Charles Reynolds also was a director of the Toledo Scale Co. and president of the Merrill Manufacturing Co. He was married to Annie Groff. He retired in 1931 and on July 5, 1938, he died after an illness of several weeks. (Killits, vol. 3, 626. "C.L. Reynolds, Banker, Dies," Toledo Blade, 5 July 1938. "Reynolds. Dead at 87," Toledo New Bee, 5 July 1938). Frederick Jesse Reynolds, the son of S. C. Reynolds, joined his fathers business the Reynolds Brothers and later also went into banking. He was born in Jackson, Michigan on August 25, 1857. After college he became a clerk at Reynolds Brothers and five years later was made a partner. He stayed with the company until it broke up in 1908 but by then had already expanded into other businesses. In 1887 he became vice-president and general manager of the Toledo and Michigan Belt Railway Company and held that position until the company was absorbed by the Michigan Central Railway. Like his father, Frederick Reynolds became an executive and member of the board at First National Bank. He was elected to the board of directors of the bank in 1897. He became vice-president in 1898 and finally achieved the presidency of the bank in 1909.(Killits, vol. 3, p.557). In 1923, Reynolds was made chairman of the board of directors at First National.("F. J. Reynolds, Bank Leader, Is Dead Here," Toledo Times, 2 April 1932). He was also on the board of directors of the Hocking Valley Railroad Co. and the Mather Spring Co. He was a member of the New York Produce Exchange and the Toledo Chamber of Commerce.(Van Tassel, p.627). He married Ida Louise Stone on October 4, 1882. Ida Reynolds died in 1915. Frederick Reynolds died on April 1, 1933 after an illness of several months. ("H.S. Reynolds: Retired Banker, Hospital Trustee," Toledo Blade, 22 October 1967). Frederick's son, H. S. Reynolds, followed a path very much like his father's. H. S. Reynolds was born in Toledo on February 1, 1885. He attended the Toledo Public Schools before graduating from St. Paul's School at Garden City, Long Island in 1900. He worked for Reynolds Brothers after he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1906. After Reynolds Brothers, he obtained a minor position with First National Bank and by 1912 was on the board of directors. In 1915 he was made vice-president and in 1923 followed his father as president. At that time he was the youngest bank president in the country. H. S. Reynolds was also on the board of directors of the Toledo Trust Company and Rossford Savings bank. H. S. Reynolds married Rachael Ketchum in February 1909. He lived in the Plaza hotel in his later years and died in the Lucas County Home on October 21, 1962. [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61374/004674122_00168/175126?backlabel=ReturnRecord&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dFSMarriageMichigan%26h%3d175126%26tid%3d%26pid%3d%26usePUB%3dtrue%26usePUBJs%3dtrue%26rhSource%3d7667&ssrc=. March 15, 1842 [S100] Internet Source, https://archive.org/stream/historyofcityoft00wagg/historyofcityoft00wagg_djvu.txt. Reynolds, W. R., Revnolds Bros. Reynolds, S. C, Reynolds Bros., Grain Commission. Reynolds, ChailesL., Reynolds Bros. Reynolds, W. R., Reynolds Bros. Reynolds, Fred J., Reynolds Bros. [S61] United States Census, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7602/4120231_00254?pid=80029683&backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/43852443/person/12714397761/gallery&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XFO2268&usePUBJs=true. 1900 Jackson County, Michigan lists children [S100] Internet Source, http://www.onlinebiographies.info/oh/lucas/reynolds-cl.htm. Charles L. Reynolds, president of The Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company, has been an official of that institution for over thirty seven years and long an outstanding figure in banking and business circles of Toledo. The record of The Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company shows continual development and expansion along the lines in which progressiveness is balanced by a safe conservatism, a policy which has been instituted and fostered by Charles L. Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds came to Toledo from Jackson, Michigan, where his birth occurred March 29, 1851, his parents being Wiley R. and Mary (Terry) Reynolds. The father was also an interested factor in Toledo business affairs, although he maintained his residence in Jackson, where he conducted a milling business and also was one of the partners in the dry goods establishment, which was carried on under the firm style of W. R. & S. C. Reynolds. The death of Wiley R. Reynolds occurred in Jackson in October, 1900. The mother of Charles L. Reynolds passed away when he was about twelve years of age. Charles L. Reynolds attended the public schools and continued his education in Racine College, at Racine, Wisconsin, and in the, Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He arrived in Toledo on the 1st of April, 1869, and soon afterward entered into close association with the grain and milling business here conducted by his father and uncle, under the firm style of Reynolds Brothers At first he occupied a clerical position and then became his father's successor in the business and a partner in the firm about 1875, the old firm style of Reynolds Brothers, however, being maintained until it went out of existence in 1908. Mr. Reynolds had in the meantime entered banking circles, giving his time more and more largely to financial interests and for a number of years his attention has been directed to the management of The Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company, which was established in 1868 ands with which he has been officially connected since 1886, becoming its president in 1906, a position which he has occupied ever since. He has directed the destiny of the bank and established its policy in large measure, while the continued growth of the institution is proof of the soundness of his judgement and the enterprise which actuates him in all of his business affairs. He is one of the largest stockholders of the Second National Bank of Toledo and was formerly a director in the old Merchants National Bank, which was merged into the Second National, of which Mr. Reynolds has since been a director. He likewise represents the directorate of the Toledo Scale Company and is the president of the Merrill. Manufacturing Company, while his cooperation is a valued asset in the profitable management of a number of other important financial and business concerns of this city. On the 6th of June, 1878, Charles L. Reynolds was married to Miss Annie Groff, who passed away December 4, 1906, a few weeks after returning with her husband from a trip abroad. She had been a leading figure in social circles in Toledo and for many years was a consistent member of Trinity Episcopal church. By her marriage she became the mother of three children: Lawrence G. and Donald L. were educated in St. Paul's School at Concord, New Hampshire, and in Yale University, and Lawrence G. is now connected with the Bostwick-Braun Company, wholesale and retail hardware merchants of Toledo, while Donald L. is, connected with The Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company; an only daughter, Annie, attended Miss Peebles School of New York city and is now the wife of Rt. Rev. Robert L. Harris, Episcopal bishop of the Marquette diocese. They have one child, Rosalind, and by a former marriage Mrs. Harris had one son, Charles R. Macomber. Mr. Reynolds has long been identified with St. Mark's Episcopal church of Toledo and his membership connections extend also to the Ohio Society of New York and to various clubs of this city, including the Toledo, the Toledo Country, the Toledo Yacht, the Chamber of Commerce and the Toledo Automobile dubs. In his business life he has been a persistent, resolute and energetic worker, possessing strong executive powers, but keeping his hand steadily upon the helm of the banking business, with which he has been so long identified. His personal characteristics and social qualities are pronounced and he is an acceptable companion in any society in which intelligence is a necessary attribute to agreeableness. Mr. Reynolds' residence is at No. 2040 Collingwood avenue. From: Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio 1623-1923 BY: John M. Killits, A.M., LL.D. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company Chicago and Toledo 1923 [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61374/004674122_00168/175126?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/110222374/person/280079773405/facts/citation/860246900198/edit/record. [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9093/41326_342406-00441/1238243?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/43852443/person/12714397761/facts/citation/1000032719798/edit/record.