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Biographical Note
Elijah Reynolds was born on July 22, 1875 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1894, and was assigned to the racially segregated Twenty-fifth Infantry Regiment wherein he served until his retirement in 1919 as a captain. He married Maggie D. McInham (died 1950) in 1906. After retiring from the Army in 1919, he worked as a clerk at the War Department and as a military instructor at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. He died on November 3, 1959 in Washington, D.C.