The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-01-22
SENATORIAL sroGRApusks.
MILTON W. REYNOLDS.

uoubt that the mighty soul OF Tecumseh
is imprisoned in the Lputian boay Of R~ynoidsi John
Milton his fathers beau ideal Of poet and Arnold
Winkelreid his model for soldier Tbs wrote for
liberty. and went blind; the other way for liberty,
and died.
The founder of the Reynolds hriily French. and
crossed over to England with william Of Normandy It
was long question whether Reynods the Conqaeror
the t to set foot the sands Of Hastines bot final
" Reynolds gracefully yielded the point to his sovereign
upon the latters publicly acknowledging that he an
eyewitness % the fact that Harold fsn by the hand Of
Reynolds in single combat.
From this time the family became distinguished one in
England hsing many Offices Of hosor and prot through
all changes Of Government Il Is unnecessary to follow
them through all the down to the present We
viii merely state that the grestandfher of the subject
Of this sketch English officer at the battle Of Culo
cen where he engaged in single combat with the famous
chief Lochie and slew him His impefuosity led him far
into the Scottish nes without his being aware Of it, and
when the rout commenced he tbeaghtk his army
that rrtrOstns and followed the crowd taking refuge
and eoneealing himself In the hold Of French ship which
bore the refugees to America. When days out he
discovered and the infuated crowd pitched him
board without word Of explanation throwing empty
cask after him. with the advice make the remainder Of
the voyage in that After beng tossed about thus for
few days subsisting fish which he caught with
hook and line that he happened have in his pocket
An this time he ~ acranee to the result
of the battle in Scotland pushed into the
backwoods he never learned unt ten years afterwards
when he met Gen Braddock who had been In the same
battle; then for the first time he learned that Che
English had been victorious.
In the meantime he had married aud raising fem
y At breaking Of the Revolution he hurried off
to Canada to avoid fratrcda strife where his the
grandfather Of NJ winkereid Joined the British army
and engaged in the battle Of Quebec, where Il
generally conceded that he fired the shot by which Gen
Montgomery killed. The old father was eaten by
wolves while heroeally making night journey in mid
Winter errand of mercygcing to spprse band Of
British and Indians that squad Of fugres from the de-
eated Continental army taking shelter for the night
in his stable.
At the close Of the war the young Reynolds returned
the United States where be married and lived quietly in
the bosom of his family At the breaking out of the
Of 1912 he had married the father Of the subject Of
this sketch Possessing ort Of hereditary repugnance
atcidal strife the whsle family engrated Canada
where the junior Rcynold. enlisted in the British army
and the battle of the Thames bad two three fair shots
at Gen Harrison but by fatality missed his mark
However he had the satisfaction Of wounding Col Dick
johnson and saving Tecumseh from being scaped after
he slain 1t should have been mentioned before that
April previous he had participated in the battle
York and with his hand had fred the train to blow
up the magazine by which Gen. Pike Misunderstanding
the noteworthy coincidence that the father killed Gen
Zcbulon Montgomery, and the killed his nancsake
Gen Zebuon Montgomery Pike. 1t will thus be that
leading characteristic Of the Reynolds family is desire
avoid fratricda srfe but when they forced into
it. they always make themselves felt.
Old man Reynolds grandfather of Milton met with
melancholy death the day before the battle Of the Thames
company Of Americans were enoamped near his house
and he conceived the idea Of spying out information
carry to the British. There hollow log within
hearing distance which he attempted crawl but
stuck fast when he the enlargement just below the
small Of his back, and could neither forward
backward In this predieanent he eaten up by an
old sow
The Reynolds family always preferred the United States
place Of residence and the close of the war they
returned, locating in Western New York. Here Milton
grew mp and displayed great genius He exhibited
a=kabe talent for writing and always selected to
give graphic account of of public character
At school, the boys gave hi the title of the Great Writ
ist" Although at the time quite boy, the celebrated
Morgan Of Masonic fame employed him to write the
posure of Masonry which shortly after created such
motion and led to such mytecus and melancholy rcsus
This known until receny but the information was
obtained from Morgan himself by persons who met him
among the Indan, in tho Saudwch Islands in Asia Minor
and the various other places where he has been seen
reader Of that work cannot M to recognize the genius Of
Reynolds every page. Milton never initiated into
the Masonic Order but he has passed himself off upon it,
and been accepted member, solely upon the knowi.
edge gained whilc in the employ Of Morgan
At the age Of eighteen be determined depend upon
his resources and established writing school the
country This did not profe very successful The parents
Acknowledged that the children followed copy well enough
but the copy not to her tastethcy preferred that
should not learn to write The truth is Reyn
ods distinguished for the le-bity of his chi
rogaphy 1t is related that occasion he received
invitation to address literary society," He wrote re-