A Feeling Tribute to the Memory of Charles P. Reynolds.
Geo. F. Lewis, editor of the Saginawian, Saginaw City, an intimate friend of the late Charles P. Reynolds, speaking editorially of the latter's tragic death, pays the following merited tribute to the memory of his dead friend:
The Saginawian is pained to print from the Alcona Review the sad account of the drowning at Harrisville of C. P. Reynolds, Esq, one of the pioneers of Alcona county and one who has done quite as much as any one man to forward the agricultural interests of Northeastern Michigan. Alcona county can credit to Mr. Reynolds the fact that she has the best system of country roads of any new county in the State; that she holds an advanced position in farming, fruit-growing and the various divisions of horticulture. Mr. Reynolds, always an earnest worker for the improvement of the soil at home, has ably represented Alcona and the counties north at many of the State Fairs and Institutes, notably those in Saginaw and E. Saginaw; he was the life of Alcona exhibit in the Northern Michigan Department of the State Fair in Detroit in 1879; he has always been an enthusiastic worker in the interest of the Northeastern Agricultural Society and has attended most of that Society's fairs; he was a man of far more than average ability, a thinker, a writer, a competent business man and one whose heart was always right, though hard lines and crushing misfortunes left him but little sunshine in this, to him weary world. "The evil that men do lives after them, the good deeds are often interred with their bones." Of Reynolds it may be said he wrought no evil and his good deeds will live long years as a blessing to her citizens in the advance farm development which was secured to Alcona mainly through his efforts. Peace and pleasant tribute to his memory, for however he may have come short of his hopes and his desserts, no man can gainsay the fact that the world was better for his having lived in it.