Brief Life History of William Lawson
When William Lawson Reynolds was born on 20 May 1869, in McLean, McLean, Illinois, United States, his father, Lawson Reynolds, was 51 and his mother, Martha Ann Lyons, was 20. He married Mary Idella Nash on 26 November 1890, in Dunlap, Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Jackson Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Maxwell, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States in 1950. He died on 21 February 1958, in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
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- William L Reynolds, "United States 1950 Census"
- William L. Reynolds, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- W L Reynolds, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1889
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Crawford, Iowa, United States
1893 · The World's Columbian Exposition
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
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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