William Wilkinson Reno

William Wilkinson Reno (May 10, 1872 – March 21, 1918) was an officer in the United States Army Medical Corps who served from 1898 until his death in 1918. Born in Seymour, Indiana, he was a grandson of J. Wilkison Reno and a nephew of the members of the Reno Gang, the post–Civil War outlaw band credited with one of the first peacetime train robberies in the United States. After brief careers in education, Reno commissioned into the Army around the time of the Spanish–American War and served through the Boxer Rebellion and multiple postings in the Philippines. He commanded Camp Funston and Fort Riley, Kansas, before being sent to France in late 1917. He was lost overboard from the troop transport in the North Atlantic on March 21, 1918, and his body was never recovered.

Early life and family Reno was born on May 10, 1872, in Seymour, Indiana, in Jackson County. His grandfather, J. Wilkison Reno, was a prosperous Jackson County landowner whose sons Frank, John, Simeon, and William formed the Reno Gang.