Biography

12/09/1801 - 01/25/1869

REYNOLDS, William Champion, a Representative from Luzerne County; born, December 9, 1801 in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa.; attended, Thomas Patterson’s Academy; attended, Wilkes-Barre Academy; attended, Princeton College (now Princeton University); proprietor, Gaylord & Reynolds, general merchandise and mining, coal and lumber shipping business (1824-1835); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Kingston (1830); engaged, mining and shipping (1836); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1836-1837 and 1837-1838 terms; elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1838); board of managers, Wilkes-Barre Bridge Company (1840-1841); appointed, associate judge, Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas (1841-1846); trustee, Wyoming Seminary (1845-1858); commissioner, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton Railroad Company (1852); organizer and president, Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad Company (1854-1865); died, January 25, 1869 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.