The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 314
A portrait of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Reynolds appears in this publication.

D. D. REYNOLDS.

D. D. Reynolds, a representative of ranching interests in the vicinity of Wiley
City, was born in Greene county, Missouri, August 16, 1873, a son of J. W. and
Susan E. (Garoutte) Reynolds, the former a native of Missouri, while the latter
was born in Ohio. The paternal grandfather, D. D. Reynolds, was one of the
pioneer settlers of Missouri, where he spent the remainder of his days. His son,
J. W. Reynolds, came to the Pacific northwest in 1877, at which time he settled
in Oregon, and after residing there for seven years removed by wagon to Yakima
county in 1884. He purchased a ranch on the Ahtanum, where he lived for some
time, and later made his home on the Cowiche, subsequently returning to the
Ahtanum where he spent the last twenty years of his life, passing away in 1913.
His wife died in this locality, one year later, in 1914.

D. D. Reynolds of this review obtained a public school education and engaged in
ranching with his father, early becoming familiar with the best methods of
tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He was thus employed until 1896, when
he purchased twenty acres of land at Fairview, owning that property until
February, 1901, when he sold it. He then removed to the Ahtanum and bought forty
acres of land adjoining Wiley City. Upon this he erected a fine residence and
model barns. The place is called Carnation lllahee and is one of the attractive
ranch properties of this section of the state. Mr. Reynolds is engaged in the
raising of alfalfa hay and also in stock raising, dairying and poultry raising.
Each branch of his business is carefully conducted and he makes a close study
of the best methods of carrying on the work of each particular line.

On the 6th of April, 1896, Mr. Reynolds was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary
(Benton) Libbey, who was born on the Ahtanum in Yakima county, in fact she was
the first white child born on the Ahtanum the date of her birth being February
6, 1867. Her present home is within one mile of the place of her birth. She is a
daughter of H. M. and Mary (Allen) Benton. Her father was born at Hartford,
Connecticut, while her mother's birth occurred in the Cascades of Oregon. H. M.
Benton was a sea captain who made the trip around Cape Horn and up the Pacific
coast, becoming one of the pioneers of Oregon. He had previously visited all
parts of the world and had gained many interesting experiences. In the fall of
1866 his wife and her father, J. W. Allen, arrived in Yakima county and they
located on the Ahtanum, where Mrs. Reynolds was born in the following February.
Her father traded a pipe and twenty dollars in money for one hundred and sixty
acres of farm land that is today worth two hundred dollars per acre. He resided
thereon until his later life, when he accepted a job on the steamship Clara
Nevada, running to Alaska. This boat was wrecked by an explosion in 1897 and all
were drowned. His widow survives and is now living on the lower Ahtanum.

Mrs. Reynolds had one child by her former marriage, Mabel, who is now residing
in Yakima. When Mrs. Reynolds came to this section the nearest postoffice to her
home was at The Dalles, Oregon, and all supplies were freighted in by wagon, a
distance of one hundred miles. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds attend the Congregational
church, and he is a charter member of the Modern Woodmen of America and also
belongs to the Royal Neighbors. In politics he is a strong republican
unfaltering in his allegiance to the party. Both he and his wife are
representatives of honored old pioneer families of the northwest and from early
days they have been much interested in the growth and development of the
section in which they live and have borne their full part in the work of general
progress and improvement. They have indeed witnessed great changes as the years
have passed and the wild regions have been taken over for the purposes of
civilization. Mr. Reynolds is today numbered among the leading ranchers of his
section, having a valuable and attractive home, while his land has been brought
under a high state of cultivation.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.