The Buchanan & Clinton Co. MO Portrait & Biographical Record of 1893:

"Stephen D. Reynolds, M.D. is Coroner of Buchanan County, and makes his home in St. Joseph. He is a man of firm convictions as to the manner in which a public trust or office should be filled, and in the discharge of his duties is thoroughly conscientious and sincere. It is his main object to give the people the best service of which he is capable, and, while strong and decided on any question, he is like the world-famed and heroic doctor who in 1892 fought the cholera at New York, regardless of personal risk, putting his theoretical belief into practical action. Though a young man, young in years if not in experience, Dr. Reynolds has already gained a large practice, and may be proud of the prominence to which he has attained in the ranks of his profession.

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born in the town of Agency, Buchanan County, MO July 3, 1869, his parents being James J. and Eliza (Gibson) Reynolds, the former a native of Tennessee, who came to this state in his boyhood, and was one of the pioneers of this locality. He is still living on his original farm, where he located so many years ago, and is now approaching four-score years. Our subject was reared on the farm and received his rudimentary education in the district schools. When only seventeen, he began reading medicine with Dr. C. R. Woodson, later taking a medical course in the Ensworth Medical College in St. Joseph, graduating in the class of 1890. He then took a course of lectures in the St. Louis Medical College, since which time he has been engaged in active practice, and in November 1892 was elected Coroner as a nominee of the Democratic party. It is entirely owing to his merits as a man and the position he had attained as a physician, that he was accorded this high honor, as he is not a politician in any sense of the term, and yielded rather to the wishes of his friends.

At her mother's homestead on December 9, 1890, a marriage ceremony was performed which united the fortunes of Dr. Reynolds and Miss Hilah L. Floyd, who was a daughter of Merrill Floyd, who for many years was a farmer and miller at Rushville, but is now deceased. At that town occurred the birth of Mrs. Reynolds, who is a well-educated and cultured lady. In the Doctor's pleasant home at No. 2617 Petit St., Mrs. Reynolds presides, making a graceful and charming hostess, one whose great pleasure it is to give a cordial welcome and hospitable greeting to their many friends.

The Doctor is a member of Agency Lodge No. 10, ow which he has been Senior Warden. It is safe to predict that this bright and active young doctor has a career before him full of great promise and growing usefulness. He is active and alert, it being his full intention to keep thoroughly posted on every discovery of science and practice in regard to the best methods of treating and combating disease, and to this may be attributed in a large measure the success which attends his efforts."

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Wednesday, 26 Sep 1951, St. Joseph paper read:

Services for Dr. Stephen Dowell Reynolds, 82, who died yesterday at St. Joseph's Hospital, will be tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the First Christian Church at Plattsburg. He had lived at Plattsburg since 1918. Burial will be at Agency cemetery. Doctor Reynolds was born at Agency in 1869.