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COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Published by F.A. Battey & Co, Chicago, 1883, pg 235

A. W. REYNOLDS was born in Perry County, Ohio, September 16, 1839. His father, Ebenezer Reynolds, was a native of Pennsylvania, but was married in Perry County, Ohio, to Elizabeth Yost, who became the mother of seven children,, two of whom are still living. The mother died about a week after the birth of the subject of this sketch, and the father married Martha Wright, who bore two children and died in 1856. Mr. Reynolds next married Mary Sellers, who died without issue in 1877, preceded by her husband in 1861. A. W. Reynolds was reared in Ohio until November, 1856, when he came to Monticello. For two years, he attended the high school here, and subsequently Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, and the college at Monmouth, Ill. He then began the study of law in the office of Hon. David Turpie, of Monticello. After two years' study be began practice in Winamac, but at the end of a year returned to Monticello. January 1, 1874, be formed a co-partnership with E. B. Sellers, and the firm still continue in active business. Mr. Reynolds is a Democrat in politics, and for eight years was Prosecuting Attorney for the counties of Carroll, White and Benton. He married Louisa G. Magee, who has borne him one son-George.

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