Background
Arlington G. Reynolds was born on a farm in Mentor, Lake County, Ohio, educated in the local schools, the Collegiate Institute in Willoughby, and Oberlin College.
Arlington G. Reynolds was born on a farm in Mentor, Lake County, Ohio, educated in the local schools, the Collegiate Institute in Willoughby, and Oberlin College.
Oberlin College.
He read law with Judge G. North. Tuttle of Painesville, and in 1882 was admitted to the Barometer In September, 1882, Reynolds located to Des Moines, Iowa, where he was employed by a large farm implement manufacturer for two years. He partnered with C.W. Osborne in 1897, and from 1905-1909 with George West. Alvord.
From 1891 to 1896, Reynolds was probate judge of Lake County.
In 1896 and 1898, he was elected mayor of Painesville. In the summer of 1897, he was nominated at the Republican county convention for representative to the Ohio House.
In the 74th General Assembly, he was chosen Speaker of the Ohio House. In 1909, he was appointed by the Governor to a vacancy on the common pleas bench.
Mr. Reynolds was a trustee of Lake Erie College starting in 1898.
He was vice-president of the Ohio division of the Sons of the American Revolution. They had one daughter named Luella V. He was a Methodist.