Biography of Peter Reinoehl, pages 581 / 582.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Peter Reinoehl, farmer and sock-raiser, is a native of Stark County, Ohio, 
born Feb 23, 1831, the youngest son of Michael and Catherine (Fisher) 
Reinoehl.  He was reared a farmer, receiving a good education in the common 
schools, remaining with his parents till twenty-five years of age, when, 
Sept. 18, 1856, he was married to Sarah Ann Sids.  He remained on his 
father’s farm till November, 1863, when he came to De Kalb County and 
bought forty acres of land in Fairfield Township, twenty-five of which were 
partially cleared.  He afterward bought thirty-five acres adjoining his farm 
on the north.  He now owns 120 acres of valuable land, all well improved.  
His wife died in Ohio, Sept. 5, 1863, and he was married in De Kalb County, 
Ind., Jan 10, 1867, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Hovater.  They have had 
eleven children---David, born July 11, 1868; John Henry, born Sept. 8, 1869; 
Mary Ellen, born Feb 16, 1871; Albert, born May 13, 1872; Emma May, born May 
21, 1873; Charley, born July 11, 1874; Cora Alice, born Jan. 17, 1876; 
Elizabeth Ann, born July 8, 1878; died Feb. 4, 1881; Franklin, born April 
8, 1881; Melvin, born May 1, 1883; Silveines, born May 31, 1885.  
Politically Mr. Reinoehl is a Democrat.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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