Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-09
GEN. JOHN F. REYNOLDS.
Presentation of HIS Portrait to the Historic


Presentation of HIS Portrait to the Historical
| Society.
As noticed yesterday in the INTELLIGEN
GER the meeting of the Pennsylvania His
torical society in Philadelphia last even
ing was made the occasion Of the presen'
tation to the society by the executors Of
the late Admiral William Reynolds of the
portrait of his brother, General John F.
Reynolds. The rooms of the association
were filled with distinguished company,
Lancaster being represented by Charles A.
Heinitsh, one of the executors, and Hon.
Thos. E. Franklin, counsel for the estate.
The throng of spectators was made up
largely of the most prominent citizens
lawyers physicians, bankers, merchants,
statesmen and scholars of Philadelphia.
Three governors of Pennsylvania had seats
near the president-Curtin, Hartranft and
Hoyt. About fifty members of the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion, including
General Latta, General T. Kirby Smith
and other we'll known military men
were present in body, wearing the
badges of the order In the alcove back of
the presidents chair hung the portrait
which Admiral Reynolds in his will, made
while he was in Japan, bequeathed to the
Historical society. 1t was painted by a
Dane, Baling, who intended it for West
Point, but that plan having fallen through,
it was presented to Admiral Reynolds, who
in turn directed it to be placed in such
worthy custody. As the orator last
evening remarked CAS- a tribute Of
his regard for the Historical society, and
as an addition to the other portraits of
Pennsylvania worthless now in its hall, this
gift has Especial interest, and it is gratify-
ing that by accepting it the Historical So
ciety sets the seal of it's approval on the
record of the lives of General and Admiral
Reynolds, and thus enrolls their names
with those of the gallant sons of this
state''
A tattered flag which hung near the
portrait was the remnant of the flag of
the First army corps which Genera
Reynolds commanded at the time of his
death, and the sword which hung below
the picture was presented to the gallant
general by his comrades in arms.
MIR. John William Wallace, the presi-
dent, stated the object of the assembly,
and Mr.. J. G. Rosengarten, on behalf of
the executors of Admiral Reynolds, made
the presentation. In SO doing he gave a
brief sketch of the two distinguished
brothers whose public and private virtues
were comemmorated by the occasion.
They were born in Lancaster, the admiral
in 1915 and the general in 1920. They
were the sons of John Reynolds, we'll
known as the editor and publisher of the
Lancaster Journal, and a man of high
character and great merit. He was born
near Lancaster in 1877. His father,
William Reynolds, was Protestant Irish
man, who came to this state in 1850.
The wife of the first William Reynolds
was Catharine Ferree LIE Fevre, the grand
daughter of Mary Ferree, a French
Huguenot, who took refuge first in the
Rhine provinces, and then in Switzerland,
and finally came here in 1908, receiving
for herself and her companions, large
body of French Husuenots, a great tract
of land lying in the Pequea valley-here
her daughter married Isaac LIE Fcvre, who
was also French Huguenot, who had
found a refuge in this country. Their son
was the first white child born in the
Pequea VALLEY. and his daughter was the
wife of William Reynolds. John Reynolds
married Lydia Moore, the daughter of
Samuel Moore, who was also North Of
Ireland man, and who had served with
distinction in the Pennsylvania line during
the Revolutionary war. John Reynolds
learned the art OF printing in Philadelphia
with Archibald Barham, became his part
ner, and after his death returned to Lar
caster, where he spent his life in active
public and private trusts.
William Reynolds, the eldest son, was
appointed a midshipman in 1881; was
with Wilkes's expedition returned in
broken health from the exposure and
fatigue incidental to that hard service :;
was put on the reserved list, and assigned
to duty at the Sandwich Islands. There
he reGained his health, and was of great
use in establishing a good understanding
between the two countries. When the
rebellion broke out he at once applied for
active duty, was ordered to the command
of the naval forces at Port Royal, and on
the recommendation of Dupont and Dahl
gren, and his own subOrtlinates and Juniors
was restored to the active list, and was
rapidly promoted to commodore and ad-
miral: serving as chief of bureau and as
acting secretary of navy, finally taking
command of the United States naval forces
in the east, and there he broke down again
in health, and was forced to return home
and go on the retired list, dying at Wash
ington on the 5th of November, 1879.
Mr.. Rosengarten then gave an elaborate
review of the life and services of General
Reynolds from his birth at Lancaster in
1920, through his school life at Lititz, near
Baltimore, in the Lancasterian schools and
at West Point, his services in Mexico, in
the Utah expedition and against the Indi-
ans in Oregon down to his part in the last
war and his achievements and death at
Gettysburg TO show his high character
and patriotism, Major Rosengarten made
large extracts from General Reynolds's
correspondence, and fortified his high
estimate of his services by numer-