Loran W Reynolds

REYNOLDS, BOWMAN

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/9/2006 at 14:52:01

Loran W Reynolds, of the firm of Holmes & Reynolds, attorneys, Boone, was born in La Porte county, Indiana, on May 4, 1846, his early life was spent on a farm and he was educated at the New Carlisle Literary Institute, and attended the State University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was graduated from the law department in 1867, receiving the degree of LL B: he practice his profession in Chariton, Lucas county, and was afterwards associated with Judge Conklin, of Benton county, author of the Iowa Treatise, and one of Iowa’s most eminent attorneys: from Benton county he removed to Carroll county and in 1871 settled in Boone, since which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, Mr R is eminently a self-made man, having secured an education by his own energy, and his example is a worthy one for the youth of Boone county to imitate, he was married in 1871 to Miss Florence Bowman, a resident of Greene county, Iowa, but a native of Ohio, they have three children: Florence D, John Jr, and Joseph F

1880 Boone Co History Book