Excerpt from Partial Genealogy of John Reynolds: Born in England in 1612 (Supposedly), Sailed From Ipswich County, Suffolk, A Part of His Lineage to 1916There we took a river boat for Peoria, stopped there several days. Not finding work at our trade we went to Rock Island, Davenport and hloline. Disappointed in not finding work, we walked to Geneseo, where Newman lwas taken sick with measles and I found work building an office for O. J. Stow, the druggist. By the time Newman was able to Work and the office completed, we found work in Altona, Ill., building a tavern or hotel for Stewart Koon in June, 1855.After the hotel was completed, we found work in and around Altona for three or four years. The prospeets of political disturbances, Civil vvar, stopped all business in 1858, for four or five years, so that corn was burned for cooking and heating and sold for 10 cents a bushel in the markets.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.