Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . ^<^ LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA 1 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 577 and friends of his youtii, he went to Liverpool,where he took passage in a sailing-vessel, theSouthampton. of the Black Star Company, withCapt. Snow, which was bound for New York Cit}.During the voyage, which occupied six weeks, muchsevere weather experienced. One night someof the masts were broken and the sails torn topieces and carried away by the storm. They an-ch
Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . ^<^ LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA 1 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 577 and friends of his youtii, he went to Liverpool,where he took passage in a sailing-vessel, theSouthampton. of the Black Star Company, withCapt. Snow, which was bound for New York Cit}.During the voyage, which occupied six weeks, muchsevere weather experienced. One night someof the masts were broken and the sails torn topieces and carried away by the storm. They an-chored in New York Harbor on the 27th ofAugust, , and from there Mr. Reynolds wentto Now Jersey, where he secured employment ona farm, and remained at farm labor for abouttwo ycai-s and a half. In , believing that theWest afforded better opportunities, he emigratedto Chicago, and after staying there a short time,went to Iroquois County, For the succeedingnine }ears. he was emplojed by different the meantime, and soon after locating in thiscountv, Mr. Reynolds pre-empted one hundredand sixty acres of land, and on th
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