BIOGRAPHIES

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A. History of Northwestern Ohio
A Narrative of Its Historical Progress and Development
from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and
Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of
Lake Erie, down to the Present Time
by Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D.
Assisted by a Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors
Illustrated
Vol. II
Published by
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1917

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	CALVIN HAMILTON REED, M. D., whose death occurred at his home in Toledo May 4, 1915, possessed and exercised many qualities of mind and manhood which his community could ill afford to lose.  He stood for the finest things of life, and was not only a successful physician, but a gentleman of the highest type and a social leader in the best sense of the term.  His widow and family still reside at Toledo.      At the time of his death he was one of the oldest members of the medical fraternity at Toledo, both in point of age and length of service.  Born in Union County, Ohio, November 20, 1840, he represented a family that became identified with Ohio when it was still a territory and more than 115 years have passed since the Reeds first came into this state.  His parents were George and Martha (Morgan) Reed, and his paternal grandfather, Samuel Reed, a native of Pennsylvania, located in Union Township of Union County, Ohio, in 1800 and was a substantial farmer there until his death.  Samuel Reed married Elizabeth Lecky, who was also a native of Pennsylvania and who died in Union County, Ohio.  Doctor Reed's maternal grandparents were William and Phoebe (Campbell) Morgan, who spent the latter years of their lives in Maryland, where they died, and their youngest daughter, Martha Hamilton, who was born in Maryland, Mar. 21, 1822 was reared in the home of a relative, Uncle Robert Nelson.  George Reed, father of Doctor Reed, was born in Union County, Ohio, August 21, 1809, and became a successful master of agriculture and followed it through all his active life.  He was a stanch republican and he and his wife for many years were active in the Presbyterian Church at Milford Center, living exemplary Christian lives.  George Reed died in Toledo in 1890 in his eighty-first year, leaving to posterity a clean record as a farmer, a citizen and a man. His wife preceded him thirty years, having passed away Feb. 29, 1860.  Of their seven children only one is now living, a daughter.      Doctor Reed grew up in a home of simple comforts and high ideals.  He attended the public schools of Union County and an academy at Marysville, Ohio.  On June 3, 1862, he answered the call of patriotism and enlisted as a private in Company E of the Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry and served as a corporal until his honorable discharge on Sept. 25, 1862.  For about three years he was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and paid most of his expenses by teaching school during the winter seasons.  His real aspirations were for medicine, and as soon as he could do so he took up the study in the office of Prof. J. W. Hamilton, M. D., at Columbus.  He was graduated M. D. with the class of 1868 from Starling Medical College at Columbus, and at once came to Toledo to begin practice. He first established his offices on the corner of St. Clair and Logan streets, and was in that neighborhood for nearly half a century and made his skill, his time, and his patience available to his large clientage.  His practice extended beyond the boundaries of Toledo and Lucas County, and while not a specialist he ranked among the ablest members of the Lucas County medical fraternity.  Throughout his life work he commanded the esteem of his fellow practitioners, enjoyed the love and respect of his multitude of patients, and should be remembered as a capable, progressive and conscientious physician and surgeon.  He was a member of the Toledo Academy of Medicine, the Northwestern Ohio and Ohio State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Knights of Pythias.      His long study and experience in close touch with the affairs of life made him keenly realize that true popular welfare was bound up in the abolition of every special privilege conferred by Government authority and it was perhaps only natural that he accepted and believed the basic principles of socialism and long acted with that party in politics.  In fact his political creed was significant of his profound interest in and his laudable desire for the uplift of humanity.  Though he never aspired to a public career, he served six years as a member of the Toledo Board of Education.  He had splendid powers as a conversationalist, and yet those who remember him think of him as much as a good listener as a talker.  He liked nothing better than to talk of his own political convictions and to get the point of view of his hearers.  It is said that again and again he forgot his meal times when absorbed in explaining some point of the socialist doctrine. In religion, while not a stickler about creed, he was an active member of the Third Presbyterian Church of Toledo, and was identified with that church because his parents had been Presbyterians before him.      On June 9, 1869, Doctor Reed was happily married to Miss Emma Bethiah Smythe, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, a daughter of Henry P. and Sarah K. (Harris) Smythe, her mother being a daughter of Timothy and Bethiah (Lynnel) Harris. Doctor and Mrs. Reed had five sons: Morgan Smythe, the oldest, died Aug. 20, 1913; Harris Hamilton died in childhood; Chase Campbell lives in Detroit, Michigan; Carl Kirkley also died in childhood; Lynnel Lecky, who resides with his mother, is a talented musician at Toledo, and a brief sketch of his career is found on other pages. † Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ 1917 - Page 699
F. J. Reynolds	FREDERICK J. REYNOLDS.  A son of the late Sheldon Clark Reynolds, who was one of the most conspicuous figures in business, financial and railroad interests in the State of Ohio, Frederick Jesse Reynolds has exhibited the same business calibre of his honored father, and for a number of years has been an official and is now president of the First National Bank of Toledo, one of the largest and most influential banking houses of the Middle West.      The First National Bank of Toledo was established in 1863, the same year the National Banking Act became a law.  At the present time the resources of this institution aggregate approximately $10,000,000.  The capital is $500,000, and the surplus and undivided profits amount to $250,000.  The great strength of the bank as reflected in its assets is supplemented by the integrity of its officers and directors. Besides Mr. Reynolds as president the three vice presidents are Rathbun Fuller, John N. Willys and Harold S. Reynolds, while Joseph M. Spencer is vice president and cashier.  These officials and the other directors are all men conspicuous in Toledo business and finance.      Frederick Jesse Reynolds was born in Jackson, Michigan, August 25, 1857, and represents some of the old American stock, the first of the family having come to this country and settled at Providence, Rhode Island, in 1632.  Some of his ancestors fought in the Revolutionary war.      Educated in the Toledo public schools and finishing with courses in business and collegiate institutions, Frederick J. Reynolds gained his practical business experience as clerk in the office of Reynolds Brothers, grain merchants, and after five years he was admitted to the firm and continued actively associated with the business until its affairs were wound up. In 1887 Mr. Reynolds became vice president and general manager of the Toledo & Michigan Belt Railway Company, and was chief managing executive for the company until it was absorbed by the Michigan Central Railroad.      Mr. Reynolds first became actively identified with the First National Bank of Toledo in 1897 in the capacity of director, and in 1898 was made one of the vice presidents.  In 1909 he succeeded S. C. Schenck as president. He is also a director of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company, and a director of the Mather Springs Company.  He also belongs to the Produce Exchange of New York and the Toledo Commerce Club, and has social relations with Toledo Club, Toledo Country Club, Middle Bass Club, Toledo Yacht Club, Bankers' Club of New York, the Ohio Society of New York, and in Masonry has attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite.   He is a vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church.      In New York City, October 4, 1882, Mr. Reynolds married Miss Ida Louise Stone, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Jane (White) Stone.  Mrs. Reynolds died at Pasadena, California, February 12, 1915.  Her husband, Frederick J. Reynolds, and a daughter, Miss Kathryn, were with her at the time.  They had left with a party just a few days previously to spend several weeks on the coast, and Mrs. Reynolds was apparently in good health, and her death was the result of laryngitis.  She was laid to rest in Toledo.      Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds became the parents of four children: Harold Sheldon, Natalie, Dorothy and Kathryn.  All were born in Toledo and received their education there, while the daughters attended the Dobbs Ferry School for Girls in New York, and the son, Harold, was educated in Toledo and finished at the University of Michigan.  Harold S. Reynolds, as already mentioned, is now vice president of the First National Bank of Toledo.  He married Miss Rachel Ketcham, a granddaughter of the late V. H. Ketcham.  Their two children are Mary Virginia and Rachel Ketcham.  The daughter Natalie married Roland A. Spitzer, who died May 20, 1916, a son of A. L. Spitzer of Toledo, and besides his wife left two sons named Philip Adelbert and Frederick Reynolds Spitzer.  Dorothy married Joseph W. Robinson, a son of J. D. Robinson of the Libby Glass Works at Toledo.  Kathryn was married June 14, 1916, to Augustus Barrett Richardson, son of S. O. Richardson, Jr., of Toledo, Ohio. † Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ 1917 - Page 667
S. C. Reynolds	COL. SHELDON CLARK REYNOLDS.  In the death of Col. Sheldon C. Reynolds on Nov. 22, 1912, Toledo lost a citizen who in a peculiarly effective way combined both faith and works.  He was never a public man in the sense of an office-holder, though his career brought to Toledo a far reaching and substantial benefit.  Colonel Reynolds had vision.  But his ideals were constructive, and when it came to carrying out his plans and purposes he was one of the most practical of men.  A great many years ago he became identified with the flour milling and grain business.  He selected Toledo as the scene of his operations.  From the first he linked his own fortunes with that of the rising city on the southern shores of Lake Erie.  It was his distinction to become the first great grain merchant in the city.  More than any other individual factor he made Toledo one of the chief grain ports around the Great Lakes.  His career meant so much to Toledo that it is only necessary to present the facts of his career to indicate his prominence.      He was born in Essex County, New York, November 29, 1835.  He was nearly seventy-eight years of age when death called him.  He was the youngest son among the ten children of Jesse and Sarah Sheldon) Reynolds.  His father was born in Dutchess County, New York, September 15, 1793, and served as a soldier during the second war with Great Britain, better known as the War of 1812.  By occupation he was a farmer, and a thrifty, substantial New York citizen.  His death occurred December 10, 1853.  Colonel Reynolds' mother was born September 6, 1794, and died July 20, 1851.      His early environment was that of a New York State farm.  When fourteen years old he went to Bridgeport, Vermont, and spent the next two years in the home of his sister.  At the age of sixteen he entered the employ of his brothers, W. R. and W. B. Reynolds, who were at that time engaged in a general dry goods business at Jackson, Michigan.  With three years of experience there he bought the interests of his brother, W. R., and for one year was a partner of the other brother, W. B. Reynolds.  The second brother then transferred his interests to W. R. Reynolds and the firm of W. R. Reynolds and S. C. Reynolds continued a prosperous existence at Jackson for fourteen years, until 1869.      The advent of the Reynolds brothers to Toledo in 1869 was much more significant when considered from the present point of view than it was looked upon at the time.  On coming to the city the brothers bought the Armanda Flouring Mills, an industry that was soon in a prosperous condition under the firm name of Reynolds Brothers.  In 1872 W. B. Reynolds sold his interest to the other brothers and in 1875 the mill property was sold to other parties altogether.      At that time Col. S. C. Reynolds entered the grain commission business.  Associated with him was Charles L. Reynolds, his nephew, a son of W. R. Reynolds.  Later Colonel Reynolds' son, Frederick J., and Mr. J. H. Bowman were added to the firm.  The transactions of this firm for the year 1875 totaled 2,000 carloads of grain.  Ten years later, in 1885, this one firm handled 85,000 carloads.  That was a banner year, and the records show that no other individual firm in the United States handled a larger amount of grain that year.      Some idea of Colonel Reynolds' progressiveness in making Toledo a grain port is found in the statement that he was the first grain merchant to bring carloads of wheat and other foodstuffs to Toledo from west of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. He built up a splendid and far-reaching industry, with connections all over the West covering the great grain areas north and south, and he was in close touch with the market centers of the entire globe. It should be no exaggeration to attach to Colonel Reynolds the title of captain of industry. For forty-three years he was really and truly a leader in the big affairs that made the City of Toledo what it is.  His operations naturally extended to a broadfield. He was a banker, and a dominating influence in the general industrial and commercial advancement of the city. He not only helped to lay the foundation but to rear the superstructure of much that is considered most enduring and permanent in the present fortunes of this late port.      Up to the time of his death at advanced years he maintained his position of influence in financial and commercial affairs.  He held large interests in the city's most important banking institutions, and his work as a founder, promoter and director could hardly be described within the space of a few pages.  He was at one time the largest stockholder in the First National Bank, also was a large stockholder in the Second National Bank and Toledo Savings Bank & Trust Company, and was interested in various other financial institutions. He was a member and the largest stockholder in the Produce Exchange, and among the first to start the movement which brought about the erection of the Produce Exchange Building on Madison Street.  For more than twenty years, up to a month before his death, he was a director of the Wabash Railroad Company.  He served in a similar capacity for the Hocking Valley Railway, the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Kanawha & Michigan Railway.  At the time of his death he was chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank, which he had formerly served as president, and of which his son, Frederick J., is now president.  For a number of years he was president of the Lake Erie Transportation Company, and the banner ship of that line bears his name, The S. C. Reynolds.      Colonel Reynolds is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha A. Reynolds, and one son, Frederick J. He and his wife were the parents of four children, three of whom died in infancy. Though not a member, Colonel Reynolds was for more than thirty-five years a liberal supporter of the Trinity Episcopal Church.  Perhaps his favorite form of recreation was sailing on the Great Lakes, and his beautiful steam yacht, The Sigma, carried him to practically every port and harbor around the circuit of these inland waters. † Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ 1917 - Page 666

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