History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

440 HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY
county. Uuto Mr. and Mrs. Gates have been born three children
Andrew, a civil engineer of Monmouth, Illinois; Albert R., an
attorney at law with offices at No. 100 Washington street, CMcago;
and Carrie W., the wife of Frank Pulver, a farmer of
Indiana.
Mr. Gates is a member of the Grand Ai'my of the Republic and
has filled all of the offices in his local post. In politics he is now
a progressive. He has filled the office of justice of the peace for
ten years and for many years has been a school director. He holds
membership in the Baptist church and his has been a consistent
Christian life. He has never neglected his church duties or his
obligations to citizenship, even though his business affairs have
been most extensive and important. He has erected a fine home
and two other residences in Paw Paw and he improved all of the
farms which he owns, thus contributing in substantial measure to
the material development and prosperity of the county. In the
winter he resides in St. Petersburg, Florida. The most envious
cannot gi"udge him his success, so honorably has it been won and
so wisely used.
HORACE G. REYNOLDS.
Horace G. Reynolds, organizer and promoter of the Reynolds
Wire Co. is one of the leading business men of Dixon, who, recognizing
business opportunities that others have passed heedlessly
by, has worked his way upward, each forward step bringing him a
broader outlook and wider opportunities. For almost twenty
years the Reynolds Wire Factory has figured as one of the substan-
tial, productive industries of the city, the business growing steadily
year by year until this is now one of the chief industrial concerns
of Lee county.
Mr. Reynolds was born in Jefferson county, New York, in 1854,
and is a son of John Milton and Sarah Reynolds, the former an
extensive farmer. His youthful days were spent imder the
parental roof and before he had attained his majority he became
acti^'ely connected with the news])ap('r business, in which he continued
for nineteen years. He then sold out and came to Dixon,
M'lioi-o in 1R94 he organized the Reynolds Wire Co. He was asso-
ciated with Ehner E. Reynolds, wlio retired June 30, 1903, selling
out to Horace G. Reynolds. The latter has been president of the
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