Benoni Orrin Reynolds II (July 26, 1824 – January 19, 1911) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.
Biography Reynolds was born on July 26, 1824, in Sempronius, New York. In 1848 he married Mary Jane Smith, one of Wisconsin's first female physicians.Gregory, John Goadby. 1932. Southeastern Wisconsin: A History of Old Milwaukee County, vol. 4. Chicago: S. J. Clarke, p. 473. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1851, and moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1854. During the American Civil War, Reynolds was a surgeon with the 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of the Union Army. Reynolds died on January 19, 1911, in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin."United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933", database with images, FamilySearch: accessed 28 July 2015, Benoni O Reynolds, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,635,906.
Political career Reynolds was a member of the Assembly in 1876 and of the Senate from 1878 to 1879. Additionally, he was Mayor of Geneva, Wisconsin, from 1874 to 1876. He was a Republican.
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