Biography of Michael Reinoehl, page 581.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Michael Reinoehl, farmer and stock-raiser, Fairfield Township, is a native 
of Lebanon County, Pa., born Feb. 5, 1826, the eighth of nine children of 
Michael and Catherine (Fisher) Reinoehl, native of Pennsylvania, of German 
parentage.  When he was two years of age his parents moved to Ohio and 
settled in Stark County, where he was reared on a farm, remaining with his 
parents till his majority.  He was married Jan. 2, 1851, to Catherine 
Weirich, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Rupe) Weirich.  After his marriage 
he carried on the old homestead five and a half years, and in the fall of 
1856 moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and bought a tract of wild land in 
Fairfield Township, which he has cleared and cultivated, and which is now 
his valuable farm.  He owns 160 acres of land, and his residence and farm 
buildings are large and comfortable.  To Mr. and Mrs. Reinoehl have been 
born five children, but two of whom are living---Adaline, wife of Alfred 
Weirich, and George Mitchel.  The deceased are---Malinda, John Henry and 
Catherine.  In politics Mr. Reinoehl is a Democrat.  He and his wife are 
members of the Evangelical Lutheran church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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