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Michigan Jackson
Wiley R. Reynolds came to Jackson in 1840. He engaged in the grocery business six months after his arrival, in company with George T. Gardner. In 1842 Reynolds and Gardner sold their stock to Henry H.
Gilbert.
Mr. Reynolds soon after started again in the same business. In 1844 he .added dry goods to his stock in trade. In 1851 he formed a copartnership with his brother, Wm. B. Reynolds. In 1856 he sold his interest
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to another brother, Sheldon C. Reynolds. In 1857 Mr. Reynolds bought: the interest of Wm. B. Reynolds, and the firm, W. R. & S. C. Reynolds confined their business exclusively to dry goods, in which they transacted
a verv large business until the year------, when they sold their stock to
L. W' Field.
In 1851 Mr. Reynolds became interested with Mr. H. A. Hayden the purchase of the "AEtna Flouring Mills," as the mill built by the Fords was called, and engaged in the manufacture of flour. Messrs Hayden and Reynolds also purchased the Kennedy steam mills in and have been large buyers of wheat to the present time. Their have a capacity to make 500 barrels of flour daily. Mr. Reynolds is a democrat, but has taken but little interest in politics.
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