When Wilber Cyrus Reynolds was born on 3 October 1884, in South Dakota, United States, his father, Charles Carol Reynolds, was 34 and his mother, Mary Jane Horr, was 38. He married Martha Rawle on 14 February 1907, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Whetstone Township, Gregory, South Dakota, United States in 1910. In 1900, at the age of 16, his occupation is listed as day laborer in South Dakota, United States. He died on 27 August 1961, in Berwyn, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Elmhurst, DuPage, Illinois, United States.
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The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The Industrial Workers of the World was founded after a convention was held by radical trade unionists from all over the United States who opposed the policies of the American Federation of Labor. The IWW opposed the American Federation of Labor's acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions. The convention took place on June 24 and was referred by the workers as the Industrial Congress or the Industrial Union Convention. The IWW aimed to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class.
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.
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