Benoni Reynolds

Reynolds was born on July 26, 1824, in Sempronius, New York.^[1] In 1848 he married Mary Jane Smith, one of Wisconsin's first female physicians.^[2] He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1851, and moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1854.^[3] 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.^[2][3][4]

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.