N.G. Reynolds, 1877

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This is a black and white print of Nelson Gilbert Reynolds. This print is from the Historical Atlas of Ontario County published by J.H. Beers and Company.

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Nelson Gilbert Reynolds was born at Kingston, upper Canada on January 23, 1814. At the age of fifteen he went to England for four years as a soldier and later served in the Hudson Bay Company Territories in the Canadian West. He was elected to parliament for the County of Hastings before he was 21 years old. He was involded in business, railroading and banking. He was tried for treason in the Rebellion of 1837 and was acquitted. He held nearly every municipal office in Belleville and the County of Hastings. from 1854-1881 he was sheriff of Ontario County at Whitby. In 1859 he built Trafalgar Castle as his residence (later known as the Ontario Ladies' College and as Trafalgar Castle School). Nelson G. Reynolds died at Whitby on January 16, 1881 and is buried at St. John's Anglican Cemetery, Port Whitby.

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J.H. Beers and Company

Place of Publication

Toronto, Ontario

Date of Original

1877

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