Biography of Frank Reynolds, pages 1011 / 1012.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Frank Reynolds, farmer, section 12, Wilmington Township, was born in Wayne 
County, Ohio, May 4, 1833, a son of James and Mary  (McLellan) Reynolds, his 
father a native of Delaware and his mother of Greene County, Pa.  His mother 
was a granddaughter of Colonel McLellan, who was killed by an Indian while 
camping by a spring.  Some years after a son of Colonel McLellan met the 
Indian and was rowing with him across the river, when he learned the facts 
and attemped to kill him, but the Indian escaped by jumping into the river.  
Mr. Reynolds was reared and educated in his native county, and in 1849 came 
to De Kalb County, Ind., and taught school the following winter.  The next 
spring he returned to Ohio, with the intention of going to California, but 
his friends persuaded him to abandon the idea.  In 1854 he came with his 
father’s family to De Kalb County and settled near Auburn.  He subsequently 
lived some years in Troy Township, and in 1872 moved to Wilmington Township 
and settled on the farm where he now lives.  He was married Aug. 7, 1856, 
to Lucy A. Wannamaker, a native of Trumbull County, Ohio, born Jan. 8,1834, 
a daughter of Elder Samuel Wannamaker.  To them have been born four 
children---William W, deceased; Laura M., wife of Hon. W.W. Darby, of 
Bryan, Ohio; Frank E. and Alzein M.  Mrs. Reynolds’s father came to De 
Kalb County in 1844, and settled in Stafford Township, where he followed 
agricultural pursuits, and at the same time preached for the Christian 
church.  He had a family of six children---Charles H., deceased; Lucinda, 
Cordelia, Maria, Lucy A. and Laura A.  Mr. Wannamaker died in the spring 
of 1880.  Mr. Reynolds has traveled over most of the States and 
Territories.  In 1879 he took a trip South, visiting Washington, Richmond, 
Cincinnati and several of the Southern cities, and in 1882 went to 
California, going by the Southern and returning by the Central route.  He 
and his wife are member so the Christian church.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com