During the past twenty-seven years the name of Dr. Alfred Carroll REYNOLDS has been increasingly identified with the best tenets of medical and surgical science in Harrison County. By many of the longest established and most conservative families his skill, resource and obliging temperament have come to be regarded as indispensable, and there exist many who are indebted to him for their restoration to health, happiness and usefulness. Doctor REYNOLDS came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1887 from Woodland, Iowa, where he had spent two years in the practice of his profession, going there from Davis City, [Iowa]. At the latter place he had practiced two years, and had gone there from the homestead farm in Marion County, Iowa, where he was born June 25, 1854, a son of Mortimer S. and Nancy (NOSSMAN) REYNOLDS.

Silas REYNOLDS, the grandfather of Doctor REYNOLDS, was born in Virginia and there passed his entire life. His widow, who was formerly Minerva SEE, came to the West with her children, settled in Iowa, and there passed the remaining years of her life in Marion County. The children were: Mortimer S.; Carroll; Morris; John; Leaher, who became the wife of Jack HEGWOOD; Lutitia, who married John DeMOSS; and Jane, who became the wife of "Tap" HEGWOOD. Mortimer S. REYNOLDS was born in the Old Dominion State, in 1828, and during the early '40s migrated to the West, settling in Iowa, where he entered land in Marion County which he improved, and there made his home for many years. Later in life he came to Missouri and took up his residence near Martinsville, which was the scene of his abode for twenty years. He was a stalwart democrat, was a member of the Baptist Church, and a Master Mason. Mr. REYNOLDS married Mary NOSSAMAN, a daughter of Adam NOSSAMAN, who came to Iowa from Kentucky, but was formerly a resident of Indiana. Mrs. REYNOLDS' parents died near Indianapolis, Indiana, while her own death occurred at Martinsville, Missouri, in March, 1907. Her children were as follows: Dr. Alfred Carroll, of this notice; Dr. Vernon, who is a practicing physician of Oklahoma; Samantha, a resident of Harrison County, Missouri, and wife of Charles CHANDLER; Dr. Mortimer S., Jr., a resident of Yates Center, Kansas; Dr. Allen, who is a resident of Caledonia, Iowa; Levi, who resides in Montana; Ida, who became the wife of Mr. McCONKEY and died in Iowa, without issue; and Charles, who died single.

Alfred Carroll REYNOLDS grew up as a country boy amid rural surroundings and secured his literary education at Pella, Iowa. He began his career as a farmer and took up the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. Vernon REYNOLDS, at Durham, Iowa, and took lectures at the Keokuk Medical School and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk. After his graduation, in 1882. He established himself in practice at Davis City, as before related. Doctor REYNOLDS belongs to the Harrison County Medical Society and the Missouri State Medical Society, and has always practiced in and among the rural precincts. His first location in Harrison County was at Martinsville, where he remained until February, 1914, and at that time came to Bethany.

Doctor REYNOLDS was married in Marion County, Iowa, in February, 1874, to Miss Hannah J. TETER. a daughter of Samuel E. TETER, of Iowa, who died in Marion County, [Iowa], in 1881, leaving these children: Dr. Elda M., a practicing physician of Union Star, Missouri, married Nora FUNK; and three children who died in childhood. Doctor REYNOLDS married his second wife at Davis City, Iowa, in 1884, she being Miss Flora NORMAN, a daughter of Samuel and Kate (ROBINSON) NORMAN. The children in the NORMAN family were: Clara, the wife of Lemuel GRINDLE; and Mrs. REYNOLDS. Doctor and Mrs. REYNOLDS have the following children: Wilda, Wanda, Vaughn, Vern, A. C., D. 0. and Bennan.

SOURCE: WILLIAMS, Walter A History of Northwest Missouri pp. 1343-44. Lewis Publ. Co. Chicago. 1887.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2009