GLENN H. REYNOLDS BIOGRAPHY AS RECORDED IN: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF TOLLAND AND WINDHAM COUNTIES CONNECTICUT. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES. PUBLISHER: J.H.BEERS & CO., CHICAGO; 1903 P. 561 GLENN H. REYNOLDS, a well-known retired
merchant at Danielson, Windham county, was born in Mansfield, Tolland county,
Conn., Nov. 25, 1823, and comes of a family numerously represented in this
part of Connecticut. To no other cause than his own perseverance can his
success be attributed, for he was born into a large family of children,
dependent upon the altogether inadequate earnings of their farmer father.
As soon as physical strength and dawning judgement permitted, he was put
to work to swell the family maintenance fund, and his earliest days were
therefore not remote from care and responsibility. At the age of fourteen
years, in 1837, he went to live for a year with an uncle, Stephen Brigham,
of Mansfield, and while on this farm received thirty dollars for summer
services, and the privilege of going During the summer of 1840 Mr. Reynolds
was employed on the farm of Alpheus Dimmick, in Mansfield, and the following
winter lived with Deacon Stanley, at Coventry, earning the right to attend
school by assisting around the farm. In the spring of 1841 he found work
on a farm with Deacon Palmer, of Mansfield, and at the end of the season
went to Albion, R.I., and was employed as a clerk in the store of E. Storrs
Barrows, with whom he remained for a short time, later filling similar positions
in stores at Valley Falls, Lonsdale and Providence, in the latter town being
in the employ of Stephen A. Cook. In 1852 he came to Danielson and became
a partner in a grocery store, soon after purchasing the interest of his
partner, and continuing the business independently, the same being located
in the room now occupied by On May 19, 1846, Mr. Reynolds married
Elizabeth F. Eaton, born Dec. 31, 1823, a daughter of Artemas and Miriam
D. (Draper) Eaton, and who died Nov. 20, 1899. Mrs. Reynolds, who is buried
in the Westfield cemetery, was the mother of four children, viz: Ella Elizabeth,
who died May 2, 1864, aged fourteen years, three months and twenty-one days;
Edna Maria, who died March 16, 1872, at the age of nineteen years, five
months and ten days; Cora May, who died Sept. 18, 1866, aged seven months
and twenty-six days; and Carrie H., who died Sept. 24, 1863, aged ten months.
Mr. Reynolds is a Republican in politics, but has never sought nor held
public office. Nor does he belong to any fraternal organization. His services
in behalf of the upbuilding of the community include those connected with
the organization of the First National Bank of Killingly, of which he was
one of the stockholders, and he was clerk of the first meeting held by the
organizers. He is entirely self-made, and comes from the ranks of those
who build upon a foundation of common sense and unquestioned integrity.
No citizen has Reproduced by: Linda D. Pingel great-great granddaughter of Cyrus White of Rockville, Ct. |