[2] He then quit school to work in the fruit and nut business with his father, in 1898, when the firm of E. T. Reynolds and Son was established.
[2] Their dried fruit business grew to the capacity of thirty-five hundred tons annually.
On June 4, 1921, an election was held to choose a Board of Freeholders charged with framing a City Charter.
Under the charter, the board of trustees was renamed the Chico City Council, and its chair was titled the Mayor.
Reynolds was the last mayor to be titled "president" of the "board of trustees" before it became the modern Chico City Council.