Reynolds, Charles, D. D., writer, was born on Dec. 19, 1817, in Newcutt, Gloucestershire, England, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Freyer) Reynolds. He immigrated to New York at the age of fourteen; taught school in Putman county, N. Y., in 1835 and 1836; returned to New York city in 1837 and entered Trinity school; in 1843 received A. B. degree from Columbia; in 1846 graduated at the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of New York city; received A. M. from Columbia, and married Miss Mary E. Braille. He was ordained to the ministry in 1847; became pastor of Christ's church of North Brooklyn; took charge of Trinity church in Columbus, Ohio, in 1855; came to Lawrence, Kan., in 1858 as pastor of Trinity church; became chaplain of the Second Kansas in 1862; was ordered to Fort Scott as post chaplain in 1863, where he had charge of providing for thousands of refugee contrabands from the south, and upon being mustered out in Dec., 1864, became chaplain at Fort Riley. Dr. Reynolds was for a time regent of the Kansas Agricultural College, was a regular contributor to the Kansas Magazine and for various Kansas publications under different noms de plume, and was the author of "Literature of the Farm." He married Miss Florence Clarke of Wakefield, Kan., in 1884 and died at Junction City, Dec. 30, 1885.