This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zJB.2ACE/1104.1221.1222.1224.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Ira Lester Reynolds parents were Francis Marion Reynolds and Amanda Rebecca Bell. 1880 census Concord, Clinton Co., MO, p. 532C: Reynolds, Frank M., 40 b. KY, farmer, parents b. KY Amanda, wife, 35 b. KY, Keeping House, parents b. VA Cleland, son, 12 b. KY, works on farm **Lester, son, 11 b. MO Myrtle, dau, 9 b. MO Frank, son, 3 b. MO Note: Also in Clinton Co. in 1880 were D. W. and Rebecca E. Reynolds from KY, ages 77 and 68 respectively. They had a daughter Nanie E. 46 b. KY with them and 2 grandchildren, Olie and D. B. Gee born in MO. "Utah Since Statehood: Historical and Biographical" Vol. III. "For more than a quarter of a century Ira Lester Reynolds has made his home in Ogden, where he is now most capably and efficiently filling the position of secretary and manager of the Weber Club, the leading business and social organization of Ogden. Mr. Reynolds was born near St. Joseph, Missouri, on the 1st of June, 1869, a son of Francis Marion and Amanda Rebecca (Bell) Reynolds, both of whom have passed away. The parents were natives of Kentucky, and the father engaged in the raising of high bred stock on his large plantation, removing as he did at the close of the Civil war to Missouri. After attending the public schools of his native state, Ira L. Reynolds continued his education in the State Normal School at Stanberry, Missouri, from which he was graduated with the class of 1888. At the age of eighteen he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed about four years. He then turned his attention to railroading, having served the Burlington and the Union Pacific at St. Joseph, follwing the latter to the general office at Omaha and then to Ogden in 1893. Here he has made his home throughout the intervening years and has been closely and helpfully associated with various features of the city's growth and development. In 1906 he took charge of the Weber Club as secretary and manager. This club is today one of the leading commercial and social organizations of the state, and itss development is largely attributable to Mr. Reynolds' fine executive ability, his administrative powers and his diplomatic manner and tact. He has steadily built up the organ! ization, drawing the membership from the most substantial and leading citizens of the state, until now there is about six hundred names upon the membership rolls. The club has become a power in promoting the policy, advancing the interests and shaping the upbuilding of Ogden. In 1894 Mr. Reynolds was married to Miss Lena DeVorss of St. Joseph, Missouri. They are well known socially in Ogden, the hospitality of the best homes of the city being cordially extended to them. Mr. Reynolds belongs to the Ogden Golf & Country Club; also to the Elks Lodge, No., 719; and in Masonry he has attained high rank, his membership being in Weber Lodge, No., 6; Ogden Chaper. R. A. M.; Knight Templar El Monte Commandery, all of Ogden and El Kaiah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Salt Lake City. Mr. Reynolds' resourcesfulness is one of the salient features in his sucessful career as a club manager, and his progressive spirit dominates all that he undertakes. He has a fine sense of discrimination in the exploiting of industries helpful to Ogden and Weber county, often times saving his superior officers the embarrassment of backing some enterprise without merit. He has always by nature been modest and retiring, too much so perhaps for his own good, keeping himself in the background so far as possible but tending valuable consel to his associates and then generously bestowing the credit to the other fellow." Note: The dates above indicate that this was written not long before Ira died. 1910 census Ogden, Weber Co., UT, ED 233, sheet 9B, 2533 Adams Ave.: Reynolds, Ira L., head, 40, m 1st at 16, b. MO, parents b. KY, clerk Weber Club (a social club in Ogden) Lena D., wife, 38, m 1st at 16, b. MO, parents b. VA Note: Age at 1st marriage is inconsistent with various records.