Tulare County Biographies

WILLIAM REINHART

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 
One of the numerous Pennsylvanians who have become successful as farmers in 
Tulare county, Cal., and passed on to the long reward of the honest and the 
industrious was William Reinhart, who was born in Greene county in the Keystone 
State in 1832, and died in his far western home in August, 1888. When he was two 
years old his parents left Pennsylvania and settled in Ohio, where he was reared 
and educated and took up the battle of life on his own account. In 1857 the 
family moved to Cole county, Mo., and located near Jefferson City. There Mr. 
Reinhart farmed until 1874, when he came to California. He put in ten years at 
ranching near San Jose, in the Santa Clara valley, and early in 1885 rented land 
north of Tulare City, where he resumed farming with much promise of success, but 
died three years later. He was a man of considerable business ability and was 
for some years deputy sheriff of Miller county, Mo.
On January 1, 1863, Mr. Reinhart married Margaret J. Dripps, a native of 
Pennsylvania, and they had several children, of whom five survive: Madora, wife 
of Frank E. Dalzelle, of Berkeley, Cal.; Imbrie D., who lives on the Reinhart 
home farm; Pliny E., who married Martha Luck and has a son named Kenneth E.; 
James A., of Hollister, Cal., who married Laura Ashcroft, and they have four 
children, James H., Margaret P., Ulla and Laura J.; and William C. who is a 
mining engineer. Mr. Reinhart was a member of the Grange. He loved his home and 
his farm and had little to do with politics beyond doing his duty as a citizen. 
His public spirit was such that he was ready at all times to aid to the extent 
of his ability any measure which in his opinion promised to benefit his town, 
his county, his state or the American people in a broader sense.
For some years after her husband's death Mrs. Reinhart managed the farm property 
which he had accumulated. Later her son, Imbrie D. Reinhart, bought the ranch, 
which he has operated with much success. It consists of forty acres, eight of 
which are in vineyard. Considerable alfalfa is grown and the family derives a 
good income from a dairy. It should be noted that, while in his latter years the 
elder Reinhart was working leased land, he was ambitious for a home of his own 
and his widow and son have carried out his plans so far as they have been able.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 557-558