"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904. p. 834.

RALPH R. REYNOLDS is engaged in the livery business in the town of Hatton. He
was born in Mount Vernon, Lawrence county, Missouri, on February 22, 1868, and
is the son of B. W. and Frances (Stephens) Reynolds, natives of Missouri, where
they are still living on a farm. They are parents of eight children, Ralph R.,
Gertrude, Clarence, Oma, Loren and Loie, twins, Earl, and Archie.
     Mr. Reynolds remained with his parents until arriving at his twenty-second
year, during which time he gained a good common school education. He then came
to Hatton and filed on a homestead ten miles west from town, which claim he
continued to cultivate until 1901, when he removed to town and erected his
livery barn, which is a structure eighty-four by fifty feet in dimensions, and
contains thirteen complete outfits.
     Mr. Reynolds was married on February 22, 1903, to Elsie Cowley, daughter of
John T. and Elizabeth Cowley. The parents of Mrs. Reynolds have been parents of
five children, John, Monie, Elsie, Victoria and Maggie.
     Mr. Reynolds is a Democrat, and a member of the A. O. U. W. fraternity.
     He is looked upon as one of the promising business men of the thriving
little town of which he is a part.

Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net