Talk:Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds

Merge or Move

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Should this article be merged with Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds Office Building and House? If not, there is a need for a move since the article contains a misspelling of the subject's nickname. I recommend, Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds. Several sources cite the "Jo" spelling and this was also the spelling contained within the name of his packets, the "Diamond Jo Line."

I am not finding additional secondary sources for this article, so I doubt this biographical article will improve much. On the other hand, this biography might be moved into a section of the NRHP-listed building named for him.

Thoughts? Oldsanfelipe (talk) 13:29, 29 October 2017 (UTC)Oldsanfelipe (talk) 13:53, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I think having two articles is best, given the amount of info available about the two topics. It doesn't hugely matter though. And, about the name of this article, I just went ahead and moved it from "Joseph 'Diamond Joe' Reynolds" to "Joseph 'Diamond Jo' Reynolds", as it seems well explained that the latter is correct. --doncram 15:01, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 15:51, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Doncram:

Good advice. I found more material on Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds. Thanks, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 00:46, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Request for image

Is there anyone who is good at finding images in the public domain? I am looking for a portrait of Diamond Jo Reynolds. A photo or illustration would work. Thanks. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 18:36, 29 October 2017 (UTC)  Done

Problem with citation

One inline citation contains the following information: "North Iowa Times newspaper, McGregor, Iowa, January 1, 1880." Some 19th-century issues of the North Iowa Times are digitized through the Library of Congress's "Chronicling America" series. This paper was in print from 1856 to 1927, though I cannot tell when it was published daily, if ever. The LoC has only uploaded issues through 1870, and these are only available for one day per week. It's possible that the editor who posted this reference had access to an issue from a local library, but to me, the January 1 date raises suspicious about the accuracy of the citation. Since it only confirms what is available from other sources, can we just remove it? Oldsanfelipe (talk) 18:02, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Second problematic citation

A reference to The Palimpsest June 1970 was incomplete and possibly invalid. It was hard to check because it was an incomplete reference. In any case, I found a strong match in wording between two sentences of the Wiki-article and this article from by Peterson, Willliam J. "Joseph Reynolds" The Palimpsest 24:7 (1943): [1]:

Little is known of this venture, but his residence in Rockland led to his marriage with Mary E. Morton of that town. His father-in-law, who proved to be as generous as he was affluent, promptly bought young Reynolds a flour-and feed mill which paid good dividends. When this structure burned down Reynolds built the finest mill in that region — a project which caused many neighbors to shake their heads in doubt. The new mill, however, was a great financial success, drawing business from long distances.

Need Page on Diamond Jo Lines

Someone needs to create a Wikipedia page on the Diamond Jo Line. It was a major transportation company, as worthy of a good Wikipedia writeup as any 19th century railroad. There are great writeups on it. See William J. Peterson, [the Diamond Jo Line] in the Palimpsest, 4-1-1970. See Diamond Jo Line in the Online Steamboat Museum. We have separate Wikipedia pages for Cornelius Vanderbilt and the New York Central Railroad, we ought to equally separate the writeups for Joseph Reynolds and his boat line. One writeup should be doggedly biographical, one should focus on boats, towns served, cargoes carried, and the like. Douglas W. Jones (talk) 17:20, 16 June 2020 (UTC)