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Separately they were formidable—together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850–1918) and Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880–1924) has never been fully told. Now Michele Gillespie provides a sweeping account of how R. J. and Katharine succeeded in realizing their American dreams. From relatively modest beginnings, R. J. launched the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which would eventually develop two hugely profitable products, Prince Albert pipe tobacco and Camel cigarettes. His marriage in 1905 to Katharine Smith, a dynamic woman thirty years his junior, marked the beginnin...
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Matthew Williams was born probably between 1605 and 1622 in England or Wales. He died between 1654 and 1659. He probably married (1) Elizabeth Conant and (2) Susannah Cole in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Descendants lived in Connecticut, New Jersey, Ontario, and throughout the U.S.