Thanks to everybody who has answered by query re the Reynolds family of Milwaukee. I have two instances of the name of Reynolds. One is that a "cargo train" owned the Reynolds brothers and a sister left either Milwaukee or Chicago for California during the Gold Rush. The word "cargo train" is something we don't use out here in California. They are "wagon trains" and the jumping off places for the California Gold Rush were Council Bluffs, IA or St. Joseph, MO. Anyhow, in checking Rasmussen for California Passenger Lists and wagon train lists arriving in California during the Gold Rush, I find that there is no record of a Reynolds Brothers wagon train. It could be that the record was lost in the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906. However, I did look at the Second Directory of Milwaukee (1848) and found two people named Reynolds: J. S. Reynolds, a farmer, 5th Ward, Clinton Street and Joseph Reynolds, wood turner, Canal, Vliet Street, Second Ward. Has anyone ever heard of the Reynolds Brothers' wagon train? The son of the man who went on the "supposed" cargo train to California in 1850 with the Reynolds Brothers was going to go to college in Milwaukee during the time period of 1888-1891. The young man lived in Iowa, where the family had moved. The son mentions in memoirs that the "my father had planeed to get me a job with his old friends, the Reynolds Brothers of Milwaukee, WI who were the same Reynolds family that he (the father) made the overland trip to California in 1849. They were quite wealthly and ran a large Bank and many other business interests in the city." The young man in question, however, decided to stay in Iowa and got a job as an apprentice to a local druggist. Can anyone help me? Annie