Excerpt from Mary Reynolds Finally, through the kindness of Rev. Dr. John V. Reynolds and his brother William, who are still living in Meadville, where their aunt spent with them the last twenty-five years of her life, I am able to corroborate facts and from these various sources to supply the fol lowing account of these two persons in one body  two distinct lives antipodal from every mental and moral point of view. Mary Reynolds was born in England in 1793, and, when four years old, with her father and mother and their family left their home in Birmingham to settle in Pennsylvania. Leaving in New York the remainder of the family, the father and son started out into the wilderness and choose a spot on the banks of Oil Creek, in Venango County. The whole surround ing country was an unbroken forest. Twelve miles southward were the few inhabitants of Franklin, while six miles to the north lived Jonathan Titus, the proprietor of the land on which Titusville now stands.