Reynolds took up a contract in South Bend, Indiana, to build Michigan Road.

[1][2] He then made plow irons in La Porte, Indiana, for three years.

[1][2] Reynolds took a construction contract with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.

His partners left and Reynolds operated the portion they constructed as an individual enterprise for three years.

Reynolds retired from the mercantile business and became engaged in banking and other financial enterprises until 1860.

[1] In 1861, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Reynolds sent two substitutes in his stead.

[1] Reynolds died from a gastric ulcer on March 30, 1890, in Terre Coupee Prairie in St. Joseph County, Indiana.