Bio: McReynolds, Francis (1859 - 19??)

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Surnames: McReynolds, Dessert, Emerson, Martin, Westenberg

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

McReynolds, Francis (24 September 1859 - 19??)

Francis McReynolds, who is one of the prominent and substantial citizens of Mosinee, Wis., president of the village and financially and officially connected with many of Marathon County’s enterprises, was born at Batavia, N. Y., September 24, 1859, and is a son of James and Maria (Emerson) McReynolds. About 1861 the parents of Mr. McReynolds removed from New York to Milwaukee, Wis., where the father followed the carpenter trade during his active years and subsequently died there. The mother still is a resident of Milwaukee. They had three children: Francis; Harriet, who is the wife of J. B. Whitnell; and W. H.

Francis McReynolds attended the public schools and later completed a commercial course in a business college at Milwaukee, following which he had eight years of mercantile training in a dry goods store in that city. He then came to Mosinee as bookkeeper for the Joseph Dessert Lumber Company, this being in 1878, and still continues his interest in the above concern. He is secretary and one of the stockholders of the Mosinee Land, Log and Timber Company; is secretary and treasurer of the Westfield and Fall River Lumber Company, and of the Wausau Sulphate Fiber Company and a stockholder in both the Electric Light and the Mosinee Telephone Company.

On April 13, 1887, Mr. McReynolds was married to Miss Marie Martin, a daughter of Victor and Harriet Martin, of Grand Rapids, the other members of their family being: William, George, Joseph, Leon, deceased, and Harriet, who is the wife of William P. Westenberg. Mr. and Mrs. McReynolds had one daughter, Helen F., who was called away in 1909, when aged twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. McReynolds attend the Episcopal Church. A Republican in politics, Mr. Reynolds has been tendered many political offices but has accepted only those local in character and for eighteen years has been a member of the school and library boards.

 

 


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