When Benjamin Franklin Reynolds was born on 15 September 1855, in Indiana, United States, his father, Jordan W. Reynolds, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Butner, was 34. He married Sarah Martha Stafford in 1873, in Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Emporia Township, Lyon, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. He died on 26 October 1931, in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Park Cemetery, Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Kansas is the 34th state
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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