Eugene Alphonso Reynolds

Brief Life History of Eugene Alphonso

When Eugene Alphonso Reynolds was born in June 1844, in Milan, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, his father, Levi Hull Reynolds, was 36 and his mother, Irena C. Kennyson, was 31. He married Elizabeth H Taylor on 5 February 1865, in London, London Township, Monroe, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in York Township, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States for about 30 years and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1917, in Monroe, Michigan, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Saline, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Eugene Alphonso Reynolds
1844–1917
Elizabeth H Taylor
1846–1910
Marriage: 5 February 1865
Alvo William Reynolds
1866–1923
Merton E Reynolds
1869–1886
Marion Euginia Reynolds
1872–1941
Alice Maud Reynolds
1874–1948

Sources (39)

  • Eugine A Reynolds, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Eugene Alphonso Reynolds - birth: 11 June 1844;
  • Eugene Reynolds, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1848 · State Capital Moves to Lansing

Detroit fought to maintain the Capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had reasons for wanting a move inland. This move would make the Capitol more easily defensible in case of another war between the British and the U.S. like that of the War of 1812. Proponents of moving the capitol also sought to make the government more accessible to the people throughout the state. Construction began in 1847 on a temporary state capitol building in Lansing. It was a simple two-story wood frame structure, painted white with green wooden shutters and topped by a tin cupola. The building was sold when the permanent capitol building opened in 1879 and, like the first capitol, it was later destroyed by a fire in 1882.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Reynold , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish (Leitrim): in Ulster the English name in 1 above was substituted for Mac Raghnaill; see McReynolds .

History: Christopher Reynolds of Gravesend, Kent, England, arrived in America sometime before his marriage in 1644 in Isle of Wight County, VA.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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