Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-04-22
NO. % IN JOURNALS SERIES Of !
WATERv|LLE BUSINESS HEADS, I.
THE PROFESSIONS AND TRADES

| A well known Waterville man with
an interesting history is George w.
I Reynolds. active business man and
/ Grand Army veteran, who will be 10
/ today. AIR. Reynolds and his wife
live at % Winter street in the house
they built when they came to Wa
! terNllle IL years ago from Nassal-
| boro and it might be interesting to
note in passing that that part of
Winter street was then COW pas
ture
! George Washington Reynolds was
j born in Sidney. April -. 1S4:,. being
| the son Of Edwin and Adelaide
(Smiley) Reynolds. He received his
education in the district school of
! Sidney and worked with his father
on the farm until he enlisted for the
Civil War on August Z. 1867 He
! served in Company A. Goth Maine
Infantry for three years and was pro-
moted to the rank of sergeant after
| Fredericksburg. He was in all the
| big battles up to Gettysburg where
/ he was badly wounded. receiving
three bullet holes. one through the
| left lung, coming out at the back,
| one through the left thigh end a
shell wound in the Jeff arm. lie was
! then serving under General Caam-
! berlain. who was his colonel and
near whom he stood when he was
wounded.
| Mr.. REYNOLDS was taken to a hos
! pital at York, Pa. on July -. and
I remained until February - OF the
/ next year. lie was then transferred
to Boston to the Pemberton Square
| hospital and later. while convalescing
! lie was sent to Camp Distribution at
Alexandria. Va. where he had charge
I of the Fifth Corps barracks. but
after five months he was obliged to
go into the camp hospital. His
wounds proved very troublesome and
painful and the one in his side broke
| out nearly every spring for 20 years.
Mr.. Reynolds was in the Nth Regi-
ment. v. r. c. at tie Capitol Hill
| barracks the night Lincoln was
! assa assinated and after the tragedy
| was detailed with "a men to go out
! of Washington to Baltimore on the
! trains for several days. He was also
on guard duty at the penitentiary un-
til the conspirators against the Presi-
dent we're hanged.
Mr.. Reynolds has many distinct
memories of Lincoln and was with
him at Gettysburg on November ID
1868 at the dedication OF the Gene
terry when Lincoln made his famous
dedicatory address. Mr.. Reynolds Is
probably the only surviving man III
tie country who heard Lincoln al
that time. which is reckoned as a
distinctive honor.
Mr.. Reynolds was discharged from
the army in Washington on July j
1860. his regiment having come
home. lie returned to the farm In
Sidney and ran his fathers new
moving machine all summer.
On October -. 1865. Mr.. Reynold:
married Miss Abbie ID. Drummond
Of Winslow. daughter of Col. and
, Mrs. William F.. Drummond. pret-
tv romance was connected with hl'
first glimpse OF his future wife. Mr.
Reynolds in company with friend
attended Temperance meeting a
Oak Grove. As they drove on to the
grounds. another team drove up be
hind them and Mr.. Reynolds caught
a glimpse of the prettiest girl he ever
saw in his life. She made deeI
impression on him but 1t was no
until a year later that he saw he'
again in church in Sidney. where sh'
was visiting friends. BY astute gen
era, ship he managed to receive
proper introduction to the youn1
lady. His wooing was not in vain al
: that same lady has shared his JOYS
and sorrows for the past "a years, al
his Wife.
After his marriage, Mr.. Reynolds
continued to farm in Sidney for nv
wears ana it was there that his cldes
son. Josiah Drummonl Reynolds wa
born. lie then bought the big l5o
acre farm of Albert Doe in Nassal
boro. located oni Webher's pond
where he farmed for eight years
during which time he engaged in IN
! hay business. He then came to wa
teryille and after a few years sold NJ
farm. lie continued in the hay an
grain business until three years ag
and during nine years Of the time =
was associated with Hon. John \
Woodsufn Of China. whose interest h
bought out. They had storchouses II
Vassalboro and Riverside. with a ca
pacity OF over 1000 tons OF hay an
| several hay presses operating eac
season. The market was In Mass
achusetts and Mr.. Reynolds say
that while then il tool1 - or 100 car
loads a day to supply The demand a
that time six or seven cars day WI
supply all the Boston horses at pres
cnt.
In addition to his other interests
Mr.. Reynolds has been engaged j
the lumber business, which he stl
carries onl He has a mill at Week
Mills of which Sanford Reynolds ha
charge, but he states that this is hi
last lot of lumber he will buy. III
v'lI retire when what he has on han
nished up.
Mr.. and ,Irs. Reynolds had thre
children. the eldest Josiah Drum
mond, died several years ago leavin
a widow, Mrs. Annie NJ. Reyhold
/ r. 1.-TWO children, +. Drummond Rey
nolds. who is a student at Colby an
Miss Jean p. Reynolds, who is 4
junior high school. The family liv
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Reynold
on Winter street. The second son
i, G Stanley Reynolds OF Chelsea