Son of Asa D. and Betsy Reynolds, was born in Schenectady county, New York, November 25, 1810. At the age of seven he moved with his parents to Avon, Livingston county. New York, and remained there assisting his father on the farm until 1834. Being then in his twenty-fourth year, he removed to Monroe county, and taught school one winter. This year he was married to Sarah M. Lurvey, a native of Avon, New York. They raised a family of three children, namely: Mary E., born March 24, 1836 ; married Luther W. Cole, and now resides in Rose. Sarah A., born February 17, 1842 ; married Jerome E. Carver, and now occupies the homestead farm with her husband. Bettie M., born March 3, 1844; married C. L. Miles in August, 1862 ; died January 30, 1876.

April 25, 1846, Mrs. Reynolds died, leaving a family of little ones to the care of her widowed husband. Deeming it necessary that they should have some one to look after them besides himself, he married again, this time to Mary Gage, January 28, 1847. She was born in Wendell, Cheshire county. New Hampshire, January 17, 1808. This marriage was blessed with one child, Jennie L., born October 19, 1847 ; married Cornelius Mahaney, and resides at Fenton.

Mrs. Reynolds proved a second mother to the little ones, and brought them up as tenderly and carefully as their own mother could have done. Hence a singular harmony existed in the Reynolds household, not usually found where a step-mother is introduced. The family cherish her with a great deal of filial regard and affectiun. In October, 1836, Mr. Reynolds removed to Michigan, and settled two eighties, one in section 17 and one in section 18, in Rose township, where he resided for over thirty years, afterwards removing to Fenton, where he now resides. He was elected a justice of the peace in Rose for four terms, aggregating a service in that capacity of sixteen years ; was also supervisor for ten years. In November, 1854, he was chosen to represent his district in the State legislature, and did so to the entire satisfaction of his constituents and to that of the people generally. In politics he is Democratic; in religion, liberal never having affiliated with any denomination or church. He is a gentleman well and favorably known in Rose township, and in various other parts of Oakland and Genesee counties, and deservedly enjoys the respect and confidence of those whose acquaintance he has made. He is a man of a kindly and genial disposition, large hospitality, considerable intelligence, and unquestioned integrity. He has administered satisfactorily on a large number of estates, and has held various other positions that have required sound judgment and irreproachable honesty to fill.