Background
Reynolds, Joseph was born on September 14, 1785 in Easton, Washington County, New York, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Reynolds, Joseph was born on September 14, 1785 in Easton, Washington County, New York, United States.
Born in Easton in Washington County, New York, Reynolds completed academic studies.
He moved to Virgil, New York, in 1809, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He organized a company of riflemen for service in the War of 1812, and served as a major, colonel, and brigadier general in the State troops. He served as judge of Cortland County 1821–1839, and as supervisor of the town of Cortlandville 1825–1835.
Reynolds was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837).
He was elected the first president of the village of Cortland, New York in 1864. He died in Cortland on September 24, 1864, and was interred in the Cortland Rural Cemetery.
He was a Justice of the Peace 1815–1837, and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1819.